News and press releases

DUSHANBE, 1 November 2012 – The graduation ceremony for a ten-day intensive training course on border management awareness co-organized by the OSCE and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) took place at the OSCE Border Management Staff College today...

The Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia, Ashot Hovakimian, addressed representatives of the 56 OSCE participating States at a Permanent Council meeting in Vienna on 1 November 2012...

ASTANA, 1 November 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today concluded her official visit to Kazakhstan, where she met with high-ranking government officials, civil society and journalists, and stressed the need to safeguard safety of journalists and continue media reform efforts...

ASTANA, 31 October 2012 – Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today condemned the attempted attack against Tanja Janković, a journalist with B92 broadcaster in Serbia, and warned against violence becoming a dangerous trend...

KYIV, 31 October 2012 – International experience in regulating new audio-visual media is the focus of a seminar that started in Kyiv today with support from OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) and the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media...

More than 100 policymakers, academics, legal professionals and civil society representatives from across Central Asia highlighted recent reform initiatives, current challenges and the way forward in the region’s criminal justice sector at a two-and-a-half day forum that ended in Almaty on 31 October 2012...

Representatives of the OSCE Mission to Moldova visited the town of Călăraşi in Central Moldova on 26 October 2012 to better understand the dispute following a merger of Moldovan and Russian-language schools there, and see how the OSCE can help to find viable solutions for all students...