News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre in Astana facilitates national dialogue on social services for victims of cruel treatment
Publishing date: 24 May 2013
ASTANA, 24 May 2013 – Ensuring access to special social services for victims of cruel treatment, including victims of human trafficking and domestic violence, was the topic of an OSCE-supported discussion in Astana today that brought together national and international experts...
OSCE trains Tajik border and law enforcement officers on criminal procedure code
Publishing date: 24 May 2013
DUSHANBE, 24 May 2013 – Twenty-four officers from the Tajik Border Troops, Customs Service, State Committee of National Security and Drug Control Agency completed today a two-week training course on the criminal procedure code organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...
Cleaning up Kosovo as a model for civic engagement
Publishing date: 24 May 2013
On the occasion of this year’s World Clean Up Day, more than 140 OSCE Mission members helped tidy up public spaces throughout Kosovo, as part of the ‘Let’s Do It Kosovo!’ action on 24 May 2013...
International standards of freedom of religion or belief legislation discussed at OSCE meeting in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 24 May 2013
At an event organized by the OSCE in Ashgabat on 24 May 2013, experts on questions of religious freedom legislation discussed with Turkmen officials the country’s Law on Religious Freedom and Religious Organizations...
OSCE Office announces contest for reporting on human trafficking
Publishing date: 24 May 2013
BAKU, 24 May 2013- The OSCE Office in Baku is pleased to announce a contest for media reports highlighting the problems of human trafficking and forced labour in Azerbaijan...
OSCE War Crimes Processing Project in BiH expands to two more jurisdictions
Publishing date: 23 May 2013
SARAJEVO, 23 May 2013 – The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s War Crimes Processing Project has been further expanded to cover two additional jurisdictions in BiH. The expansion of the project to one additional cantonal jurisdiction and one additional district jurisdiction in the RS was made possible by the recent financial contributions of the government of Germany...
OSCE, Kyrgyzstan’s Border Service support early-warning groups in cross-border areas
Publishing date: 23 May 2013
The OSCE Centre in Bishkek organized a meeting on 22 May 2013 in Ala-Buka town, that focused on the planned activities for a pilot early-warning group, supervised by the State Border Service, in the Ala-Buka district of the Jalal-Abad district of Kyrgyzstan...