News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre organizes courses on aviation emergency response skills in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 20 March 2013
ASHGABAT, 22 March 2013 –A series of training courses on emergency response skills at airports organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat concluded today...
OSCE Centre in Astana facilitates dialogue on freedom of religion or belief
Publishing date: 19 March 2013
ASTANA, 19 March 2013- State officials, parliamentarians, religious leaders, scholars and non-governmental organization representatives discussed how to foster interfaith dialogue at a conference organized in Astana today by the Agency for Religious Affairs, and Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan with the OSCE Centre’s support...
OSCE/ODIHR workshop in Yerevan focuses on strengthening rights of defendants in criminal cases
Publishing date: 19 March 2013
New rules strengthening the rights of defendants as part of a revision of Armenia’s law on criminal procedure were the focus of a workshop organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 19 March 2013 in the Armenian capital...
OSCE trains Tajikistan border officials in crime prevention risk management
Publishing date: 19 March 2013
DUSHANBE, 19 March 2013 – Today, the OSCE Office in Tajikistan completed an eight-day training course for officials from border, customs and interior agencies of Tajikistan on risk management in the prevention of criminal activity...
32nd IPRM meeting takes place in Ergneti
Publishing date: 19 March 2013
ERGNETI, 18 March 2013- On 18 March the 32nd meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism took place in Ergneti, co-facilitated by the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office's Special representative on conflicts Ambassador Andrii Deshchytsia, and the Head of the EUMM, Ambassador Andrzej Tyszkiewicz...
New UK press regulator could pose a threat to freedom of expression, says OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 18 March 2013
VIENNA, 18 March 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed concern today about an agreement to establish an agency to regulate print media in the UK...
OSCE-Australia conference focuses on security of women and girls
Publishing date: 18 March 2013
An OSCE conference on improving security of women and girls, promoting the economic empowerment of women and combatting all forms of human trafficking started in Adelaide in southern Australia on 18 March 2013...