News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE trains border officials on protecting human rights in countering terrorism
Publishing date: 19 April 2013
Protecting human rights when combating transnational terrorist threats to border security was the focus of a four-day training course for border officials that ended in Dushanbe on 19 April 2013...
OSCE trains NGO lawyers working with domestic violence victims in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 19 April 2013
An OSCE-supported seminar for lawyers in Kazakhstan working with domestic violence victims was held at the Alatau resort near Almaty from 17 to 19 April 2013...
OSCE and Montenegrin Ministry of Human and Minority Rights promote fight against discrimination through training
Publishing date: 19 April 2013
Strengthening the mechanisms of promoting human and minority rights was the topic of a workshop organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro and the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights on 18 April 2013 in Przno, Becici...
OSCE trains new staff of prosecutor’s offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina on war crimes processing
Publishing date: 19 April 2013
New staff of four cantonal and four district prosecutor’s offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina completed on 19 April 2013 a two-week intensive training programme on war crimes pro-cessing. The training is part of the OSCE-administered War Crimes Processing Project...
OSCE media freedom representative condemns attack against Greek journalist, urges swift investigation
Publishing date: 19 April 2013
VIENNA, 19 April 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today condemned an attack on the Greek sports journalist George Tselika and called for a swift investigation by the authorities...
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina launches the Environmental Reporting Award
Publishing date: 19 April 2013
SARAJEVO, 19 April 2013 – The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina launched today the Environmental Reporting Award for online, print and broadcast media on the subject of environment...
Better information on repatriated persons leads to better assistance: workshop of OSCE Mission in Kosovo
Publishing date: 19 April 2013
A two-day workshop to help municipal officials collect and process data on returnees and repatriated persons in Kosovo concluded in Mavrovo, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, on 19 April 2013...