News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Office trains Armenian lawyers and human rights defenders on third party legal interventions
Publishing date: 22 June 2012
YEREVAN, 22 June 2012 – A two-day training workshop for some 25 lawyers and human rights defenders from non-governmental organizations on third party intervention (amicus curiae) in constitutional and international human rights procedures started in Yerevan today...
OSCE Mission to Skopje facilitates discussion on crime prevention
Publishing date: 21 June 2012
A two-day roundtable discussion on assessing the Interior Ministry’s achievements in the area of crime prevention began in Ohrid on 21 June 2012...
OSCE Special Representative puts spotlight on trafficking for domestic servitude in diplomatic households
Publishing date: 21 June 2012
GENEVA, 21 June 2012- The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, urged the Organization’s participating States today to take concrete steps to prevent trafficking for domestic servitude in diplomatic households at the first OSCE workshop on the topic for South-Western Europe in Geneva, Switzerland...
Parliamentarians to vote on diplomatic solution to Iranian nuclear programme
Publishing date: 21 June 2012
COPENHAGEN, 21 June 2012 – The same week that the European Union oil embargo against Iran takes effect parliamentarians from the world’s largest regional security organization, the OSCE, will gather to vote on how to peacefully prevent the nation from becoming a nuclear power...
Synergies between OSCE and partners must be further developed, says OSCE Secretary General, in Israel
Publishing date: 21 June 2012
Advancing new and existing synergies between the OSCE structures, its participating States and Partners for Co-operation was the goal of the official visit to Israel of the OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier from 20 to 21 June 2012...
OSCE promotes women’s participation in political parties in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 21 June 2012
BAKU, 21 June 2012 – An OSCE workshop on increasing the participation of women in political parties in Azerbaijan opened today in Baku...
24th IPRM meeting takes place in Ergneti
Publishing date: 21 June 2012
ERGNETI, 21 June 2012- The 24th meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism, co-facilitated by the EU Monitoring Mission and the OSCE, took place in Ergneti...