News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Status and safety of female journalists discussed at OSCE-supported conference in Sarajevo
Publishing date: 16 May 2018
SARAJEVO, 16 May 2018 – Women journalists in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) are frequently subjected to gender-based and other forms of unequal treatment, harassment and threats while carrying out their professional duties, concluded participants of the two-day conference Status and Protection of Women Journalists in the BiH Media today in Sarajevo...
OSCE holds national table top exercise in Bosnia and Herzegovina on protecting critical energy infrastructure from cyber-related terrorist attacks
Publishing date: 16 May 2018
Strengthening protection and preparedness against terrorist attacks aimed at critical energy infrastructure was the focus of a risk-assessment and crisis management exercise in Sarajevo on 16 and 17 May 2018, organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina...
Effective multilateralism for regional security challenges- Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl opens high-level conference on Europe and Asia Pacific in Vienna
Publishing date: 16 May 2018
VIENNA, 16 May 2018- Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl opened today the high-level conference Effective Multilateralism in a Globalized World – The Case of Europe and Asia Pacific in Vienna. The conference takes place in the framework of the Austrian Chairmanship of the OSCE Asian Contact Group. It aims to reassess the main security challenges in both the European and Asia-Pacific regions together with representatives of OSCE participating States, international organizations – the United Nations, the OSCE, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization in particular- but also civil society, academia and the media.
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina hosts regional meeting on gender equality and corruption
Publishing date: 16 May 2018
Over 30 parliamentarians, holders of executive positions, and experts from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia gathered on 15 May 2018 in Sarajevo at a regional meeting on gender equality and corruption hosted by the OSCE Mission to BiH, in co-operation with the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and the OSCE field operations in the region...
Spot Report by Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM): Small-arms fire close to an SMM patrol in the area of Donetsk Filtration Station
Publishing date: 15 May 2018
At 09:30 on 15 May, an SMM patrol consisting of six members and two armoured vehicles positioned itself on the H20 road about 1.6km south-east of Kamianka (government-controlled, 20km north of Donetsk) and about 1km west of the contact line....
86th IPRM meeting takes place in Ergneti
Publishing date: 15 May 2018
ERGNETI, 15 May 2018- The 86th Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) meeting was held in Ergneti, on 15 May 2018. The meeting was conducted in a business-like atmosphere...
OSCE Representative raises concern over raid against Russian News Agency and TV today in Ukraine
Publishing date: 15 May 2018
VIENNA, 15 May 2018 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir raised concern today over a raid by security services of Ukraine against Russian state news agency RIA Novosti and TV channel RT offices today in Kyiv as well as the searches of homes of journalists and their arrests...