News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Victim identification, assistance and protection in focus during visit of OSCE Special Representative for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings to Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 29 March 2018
TASHKENT, 29 March 2018 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Madina Jarbussynova, today concluded a four-day high-level visit to Uzbekistan. The aim of the trip was to discuss the country’s progress in implementing OSCE anti-trafficking commitments since the OSCE Special Representative’s previous visit in November 2013.
OSCE media freedom representative Désir calls for release of Özgürlükçü Demokrasi staff, following police raid on newspaper’s offices in Turkey
Publishing date: 29 March 2018
VIENNA, 29 March 2018 – The closure of the Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper and appointing a trustee to head it is a major attack on the independence of this media outlet and another setback to media pluralism in Turkey, said Harlem Désir, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today following yesterday’s police raid on the newspaper’s office...
OSCE co-organizes cross-border training seminar on risk profiling in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 29 March 2018
An OSCE-supported five-day cross-border training seminar on risk profiling at border checkpoints, which began in Karasu, Kazakhstan on 26 March 2018, is nearing conclusion.
OSCE supports roundtable discussion on revising Kazakhstan’s Environmental Code
Publishing date: 29 March 2018
Some 45 representatives from Kazakhstan’s Energy Ministry, international organizations and civil society sector gathered for an OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on revising the country’s Environmental Code on 29 March 2018 in Astana...
OSCE trains community police officers in Kazakhstan on combating domestic violence
Publishing date: 29 March 2018
A two-day seminar organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana on the legal acts and mechanisms regulating the police’s work in combating domestic violence concluded on 29 March 2018 in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Secretary General concerned about tensions in Kosovo
Publishing date: 28 March 2018
ROME, VIENNA, 28 March 2018 –– In light of the 26 March events in northern Kosovo and subsequent developments, the OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office and the OSCE Secretary General call on all sides to refrain from provocations and re-engage in constructive dialogue.
OSCE Mission to Skopje signs memorandum of understanding with the Association of Journalists
Publishing date: 28 March 2018
The Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, Ambassador Nina Suomalainen, and the President of the Association of Journalists (AJM) Naser Selmani signed today in Skopje a memorandum of understanding, which envisages the organization of a series of activities aiming to improve the safety of journalists and to promote freedom of the media...