News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Croatian representatives study Portuguese community policing methods
Publishing date: 1 July 2003
ZAGREB, 1 July 2003- A central Croatian police chief and a Croatian journalist have just returned from a two-weeks' training course in Portugal focused on its well-developed community policing programmes and the way media and police interact...
New publication voices concerns of Kosovo's minorities
Publishing date: 1 July 2003
PRISTINA, 1 July 2003- Ensuring that the voices of the many minority groups in Kosovo are better heard is the goal of a new booklet published by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)...
OSCE to hold conference on effects of globalization
Publishing date: 1 July 2003
VIENNA, 1 July 2003- Benefits, risks and challenges of globalization will be the focus of a two-day international conference to be held by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in the Vienna Hofburg Conference Centre on 3 and 4 July...
Roundtables on legal ethics conducted in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 30 June 2003
ASHGABAD, 30 June 2003- The OSCE Centre in Ashgabad, the American Bar Association's Central and Eastern European Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI) and the recently created Turkmen Young Lawyers Association (TYLA) have conducted a second roundtable...
OSCE Mission Head lays out five conditions for the rule of law
Publishing date: 30 June 2003
BELGRADE, 30 June 2003- In an article published this week in Serbia's Nin magazine, the OSCE Head of Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, Ambassador Maurizio Massari outlined the importance of the rule of law as a cornerstone of a democratic society...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office will travel to Central Asia to keep up dialogue with participating States
Publishing date: 30 June 2003
THE HAGUE, 30 June 2003- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office (CiO), Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, plans to pay a week-long visit to Central Asia, taking in four of the five OSCE participating States in the region...
OSCE trains Armenian police on countering domestic violence
Publishing date: 27 June 2003
YEREVAN, 27 June 2003- An OSCE-organized training programme to enable Armenian police officers to more efficiently combat domestic violence began this week in the country's capital, Yerevan. "Domestic violence is an infringement of a person's...