News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Border Management Staff College concludes its sixteenth Staff Course
Publishing date: 28 October 2016
DUSHANBE, 28 October 2016- The 16th Border Management Staff Course concluded at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe today...
OSCE supports study visit of Kazakhstan customs officials to Switzerland
Publishing date: 28 October 2016
A group of four customs officials from Kazakhstan’s Finance Ministry and a representative from Kazakhstan’s Chamber of Commerce concluded an OSCE-supported four-day study visit to Basel and Zurich, Switzerland on 28 October 2016...
Full participation of Roma and Sinti in electoral processes essential to their successful inclusion, say participants at OSCE/ODIHR meeting in Warsaw
Publishing date: 28 October 2016
Successful inclusion of Roma and Sinti in their societies depends on whether their right to vote and be voted for is adequately exercised, said participants at a consultation meeting organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw on 27 and 28 October 2016.
Spot Report by OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM): SMM vehicle struck by bullet near the contact line south-west of Donetsk city
Publishing date: 28 October 2016
At approximately 16:50 on 27 October, driving eastbound between two checkpoints in government-controlled Marinka (23km south-west of Donetsk) the SMM heard heavy exchanges of fire assessed as occurring 2km north-east of its position in the area between Marinka and “DPR”-controlled Oleksandrivka (20km south-west of Donetsk)...
OSCE supports regional session of Public Council of the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry organized in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 28 October 2016
JALAL-ABAD, Kyrgyzstan, 28 October 2016 – The OSCE-supported regional session of the Public Council of the Interior Ministry (MoI) to uphold civilian oversight of the police reform that took place today in Jalal-Abad city for some 160 participants, including members of the Kyrgyz Parliament, representatives of the MoI, local police, authorities as well as civil society and mass media...
OSCE completes seminar series on human rights protection mechanisms in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 28 October 2016
The last in a series of five OSCE-supported training seminars for representatives of the government, civil society and judiciary on human rights protection mechanisms concluded in Aktau, Kazakhstan on 28 October 2016...
OSCE supports Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative conference in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 28 October 2016
The annual OSCE-supported national conference on Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) took place on 26 October 2016 in Astana, Kazakhstan, which brought together over 150 representatives of parliament, government institutions, civil society, international organizations and companies in the extractive industry...