News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Afghan, Tajik customs officers complete OSCE, Austrian Finance Ministry training on customs risk management
Publishing date: 15 May 2013
DUSHANBE, 15 May 2013- Today, seventeen senior and mid-level Afghan and Tajik customs officers successfully completed a week-long training course on customs risk management in prevention of smuggling trends and money laundering...
OSCE Mission presents report on implementation of legislation on civil society and public sector co-operation in Montenegro
Publishing date: 15 May 2013
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro presented a 2012 annual report on how the authorities have implemented legislation that relates to their co-operation with civil society on 14 May 2013 in Podgorica...
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister addresses OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 14 May 2013
VIENNA, 14 May 2013 – The Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov, addressed representatives of the 57 OSCE participating States today in Vienna...
OSCE media freedom representative distressed about U.S. Justice Department seizure of reporters’ phone records
Publishing date: 14 May 2013
WARSAW, 14 May 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today said she was distressed over revelations that in 2012 the U.S. Department of Justice secretly seized two months of office, home and cell phone records from up to 20 phone lines assigned to The Associated Press reporters...
OSCE Centre promotes migration management in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 14 May 2013
SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan, 14 May 2013- An OSCE-supported regional workshop, comprised of a seminar on improving the regulation of migration policies at the local level, and a training event on best practices in the integration of migrants, started in Shymkent in south Kazakhstan today...
ODIHR reviews Armenia’s draft Criminal Procedure Code
Publishing date: 14 May 2013
The draft Criminal Procedure Code of Armenia generally complies with international standards, although certain provisions could benefit from further consideration, concludes an opinion published by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 14 May 2013...
OSCE Mission to Serbia supports development of prison administration
Publishing date: 14 May 2013
BELGRADE, 14 May 2013 – Ways to improve the rights of persons deprived of liberty and introduce new prisoner aftercare services that will facilitate their reintegration into society and reduce overcrowding in prisons are the focus of a two-day conference that opens in Belgrade today...