News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE helps train Kazakhstan’s international election observers
Publishing date: 29 November 2012
On 29 November 2012, representatives of the OSCE Centre in Astana and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights spoke at a training seminar on international election observers’ rights and responsibilities organized by Kazakhstan’s Central Election Commission...
OSCE facilitates discussion on preventing terrorist radicalization in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 29 November 2012
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 29 November 2012- An OSCE seminar on countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism concluded today in Osh in the south of Kyrgyzstan...
OSCE Centre holds expert meeting on administrative justice reform in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 29 November 2012
ASTANA, 29 November 2012- An OSCE-supported expert conference on the role of administrative law and justice in human rights protection was held in Astana today...
OSCE Mission to Skopje completes training of legal practitioners on new criminal procedure
Publishing date: 29 November 2012
The OSCE Mission to Skopje is holding its final basic training course for legal practitioners and law enforcement officials on the new adversarial and parties-driven criminal procedure from 29 November till 2 December 2012...
OSCE Secretary General, in London, meets Foreign Secretary
Publishing date: 28 November 2012
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier met UK Foreign Secretary William Hague in London on 28 November 2012...
Transdniestrian settlement negotiations started in Dublin
Publishing date: 28 November 2012
DUBLIN, 28 November 2012 – Official negotiations on the Transdniestrian settlement started in Dublin today. The three-day meeting brings together representatives of the sides, mediators and observers in the negotiations – Moldova, Transdniestria, the OSCE, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the US and the EU...
OSCE Gender Adviser, in Portugal, stresses need to uphold women's rights in economic crisis
Publishing date: 28 November 2012
LISBON, 28 November 2012- The OSCE Senior Adviser on Gender Issues, Miroslava Beham, concluding today a two-day visit to Portugal, stressed that special attention must be paid to women’s rights in times of austerity...