News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities visits Moldova to discuss integration and education issues
Publishing date: 26 November 2012
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Knut Vollebaek visited Moldova from 19 to 21 November 2012, where he presented his recently launched Ljubljana Guidelines on Integration of Diverse Societies and discussed co-operation with the Government to develop a comprehensive integration strategy...
Statement of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs
Publishing date: 26 November 2012
BAKU, 26 November 2012- The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Robert Bradtke of the United States of America, Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, and Jacques Faure of France) and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, traveled to the region November 19 to 26 to continue their efforts to assist the parties in finding a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict...
ODIHR workshop in Berlin trains civil society on responding to hate crimes against Muslims
Publishing date: 26 November 2012
Civil society representatives from Austria, Germany and Switzerland gained insight into effective methods for monitoring and responding to incidents of hate crimes against Muslims, at a workshop organized by ODIHR and the non-governmental organization ReachOut in Berlin on 24 and 25 November 2012...
OSCE launches campaign against gender violence in Moldova
Publishing date: 26 November 2012
CHISINAU, 26 November 2012 – The Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, Ambassador Jennifer Brush, presented today the annual 16-Day Campaign against Gender-Based Violence under the slogan “Real men don’t beat women”...
OSCE promotes access to environmental information and decision-making in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 26 November 2012
An OSCE-supported two-day training course on the implementation of the Aarhus Convention that gives the public right of access to environmental information, participation and access to justice in governmental decision-making concluded on 23 November 2012 at the Aarhus Centre in Dushanbe...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine trains trainers on corrective work for domestic violence perpetrators
Publishing date: 23 November 2012
KYIV, 23 November 2012 – A OSCE-supported train-the-trainers seminar on corrective work with domestic violence perpetrators for senior teaching staff from the Ukrainian State Institute for Family and Youth Policy concluded in Kyiv today...
