News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Human Dimension Conference concludes in Warsaw
Publishing date: 7 October 2022
WARSAW, 7 October 2022 – The Warsaw Human Dimension Conference concluded today. Over a thousand participants representing international organizations, governments, and civil society from across the OSCE area gathered to examine the implementation of the OSCE Human Dimension commitments at the ten-day event.
Anti-money laundering and countering financing of terrorism focus of OSCE –organized lecture course in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 7 October 2022
From 4 to 7 October 2022, the OSCE-Centre in Ashgabat organized a lecture course on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) aspects within the Economy, Finance and Credit, Jurisprudence and International relations disciplines. The four-day event was held in a hybrid
OSCE Media Freedom Representative denounces continued persecution of Belarusian media professionals
Publishing date: 7 October 2022
VIENNA, 7 October 2022 — The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Teresa Ribeiro, today strongly condemned the continued sentencing of journalists and media workers in Belarus, following the criminal conviction of former and current employees of independent news agency BelaPAN.
Possibilities of engaging the Ukrainian diaspora in reconstruction and development explored at ODIHR event
Publishing date: 7 October 2022
Opportunities and challenges of engaging the Ukrainian diaspora in post-conflict reconstruction and development, including examples of good practices from other countries’ diasporas, were discussed at an event organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 6
Concluding visit to Tajikistan, OSCE Media Freedom Representative calls on authorities to address various media freedom issues, and offers assistance
Publishing date: 7 October 2022
DUSHANBE, 7 October 2022- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Teresa Ribeiro, raised several media freedom issues during her official visit to Tajikistan between 3 and 7 October 2022.
North Macedonia enhances inter-agency co-operation and develops new approaches to disrupt the financing of terrorism
Publishing date: 6 October 2022
On 6 October, the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and with the support of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, organized a train-the-trainer course aimed at improving the skills of officials from North Macedonia to disrupt terrorist groups through the application of financial tools.
Annexation of Ukrainian territories is illegal and a threat to human rights, say OSCE human rights Director and OSCE media freedom Representative
Publishing date: 6 October 2022
WARSAW/VIENNA, 6 October 2022 – The Russian Federation’s illegal annexation of territory in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions of Ukraine, which was signed into law earlier this week, was strongly condemned by the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Matteo Mecacci and OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM) Teresa Ribeiro.