News and press releases

Ensuring equal access to decision-making for persons with disabilities, youth and women was the focus of an event co-organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek and other partners in Bishkek on 12 December 2017. Over 50

VIENNA, 12 December 2017 – Best practices in renewable energy and energy efficiency in Central Asia were the focus of a two-day expert workshop that ended with a site visit to a waste heat incineration plant today in Vienna. The workshop was organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities in close co-operation with the Joint Research Centre of the European Union...

Strengthening chemical safety and security in Ukraine, and how to establish and operate a national reference centre for the identification of chemicals were in focus at an international workshop organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine on 11 December 2017 in close co-operation with the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre and the Research Centre for Preventive Toxicology, Food and Chemical Safety of Ukraine’s Health Ministry...

SARAJEVO, 12 December 2017- For the first time, the OSCE Head of Mission Bruce G. Berton, United States Ambassador Maureen Cormack, and the Head of European Union Delegation and EU Special Representative Ambassador Lars-Gunnar Wigemark jointly addressed the Conference of Education Ministers in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) today in Sarajevo...

SARAJEVO, 12 December 2017 – The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina marked the successful completion of the War Crimes Capacity Building Project at a ceremony in Sarajevo today. The project was a part of the OSCE Mission’s long-standing support to the development of the judiciary and its capacity to process war crimes cases...

A two-day sub-regional training on the role of cyber/ICT in the context of regional and international security, organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department in co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, is taking place on 12-13 December 2017 in Astana.

An OSCE-supported five-day regional seminar for expert-evaluators of member countries of the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing (EAG) started on 11 December 2017 in Tashkent.