News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Presence helps young people with disabilities in Albania
Publishing date: 31 January 2013
The OSCE Presence in Albania concluded on 30 January 2013 a project aimed at helping young people with disabilities more efficiently advocate their rights and get more involved in public life...
Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia welcomes improved co-operation between Serbian and BiH war crimes prosecutors
Publishing date: 31 January 2013
BELGRADE, 31 January 2013- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Peter Burkhard welcomed today the signing in Brussels of the agreement on evidence sharing in war crimes cases between the Chief Prosecutor of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the War Crimes Prosecutor of the Republic of Serbia...
OSCE/ODIHR presents recommendations from final report on October parliamentary elections in Georgia
Publishing date: 31 January 2013
A team from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) visited Tbilisi from 29 to 31 January 2013 to present the final report of the election observation mission for the 1 October 2012 parliamentary elections in Georgia...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes commission on unsolved murders of Serbian journalists, stresses responsibility of government
Publishing date: 30 January 2013
VIENNA, 30 January 2013 – Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, welcomed today the establishment of a commission to assess progress in the investigations of unsolved murders of journalists in Serbia, but emphasized that the government needed to step up its own efforts to protect journalists...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes Gongadze conviction, calls for further investigations
Publishing date: 30 January 2013
VIENNA, 30 January 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today welcomed the conviction of the murderer of Ukrainian journalist Georgyi Gongadze, while urging the authorities to continue to pursue the instigators of this crime...
OSCE Centre in Astana participates in parliamentary presentation of draft human trafficking law
Publishing date: 30 January 2013
On 30 January 2013, the Head of the OSCE Centre in Astana, Ambassador Natalia Zarudna, took part in a discussion in the Majilis (Lower Chamber of Parliament) of Kazakhstan on amendments to the draft law on trafficking in human beings...
30th IPRM meeting takes place in Ergneti
Publishing date: 29 January 2013
ERGNETI, 29 January 2013- On 29 January the 30th meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism, co-facilitated by the EU Monitoring Mission and the OSCE took place in Ergneti...