News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE media freedom representative and ODIHR Director congratulate Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet on receiving “Alternative Nobel Prize”
Publishing date: 22 September 2016
WARSAW, 22 September 2016 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, and the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Michael Georg Link, today congratulated the daily Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet on receiving the Right Livelihood Award, more commonly known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”...
OSCE Programme Office supports international roundtable discussion in Kazakhstan on countering terrorism
Publishing date: 22 September 2016
ASTANA, 22 September 2016 – Current trends in international terrorism and ways to prevent young people from engaging in violent extremism and radicalization were among the topics of an OSCE-supported international roundtable discussion, which took place today in Astana, Kazakhstan...
OSCE organizes International Police Reform Conference in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 22 September 2016
BISHKEK, 22 September 2016 – The development of the police system of Kyrgyzstan in the context of security sector reform is being discussed at a two-day international conference, which opened today in Bishkek...
Use of digital tools by human traffickers in focus of OSCE-supported meeting for law enforcers in Ukraine
Publishing date: 22 September 2016
Some 50 police officers, investigators, prosecutors and judges from six regions of Ukraine participated in a two-day roundtable discussion on the investigation and prosecution of human trafficking crimes committed with the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine on 21-22 September 2016 in Kharkiv...
Youth from Albania and Serbia conclude OSCE-supported training course in Durrës on use of digital skills to promote OSCE values
Publishing date: 22 September 2016
A five-day training course on use of digital skills to promote OSCE values for young people from Albania and Serbia concluded on 22 September 2016 in the Albanian city of Durrës. The course was organized by the OSCE Mission to Serbia in partnership with the OSCE Presence in Albania, in co-operation with the Serbia’s Ministry of Youth and Sport, Albanian Ministry of Social Welfare and Youth and the National Youth Council of Serbia...
Internet journalism in focus of OSCE courses at Turkmenistan universities
Publishing date: 22 September 2016
ASHGABAT, 22 September 2016 –An OSCE-supported practical course on Internet journalism for some 40 journalism students at the International University for Humanities and Development concluded today in Ashgabat...
Martin Sajdik, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine informed about results of Trilateral Contact Group
Publishing date: 22 September 2016
MINSK, 22 September 2016- Martin Sajdik, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) made the following press statement after the meeting of the TCG and its four Working Groups in Minsk on 21 September 2016: