News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE launches public awareness campaign on citizen-state interaction in Ukraine
Publishing date: 22 December 2011
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) launched a public awareness campaign on communicating with public officials on 22 December 2011...
Sharing experiences with the Baltic states to reform the Moldovan Prosecution Service
Publishing date: 22 December 2011
The Moldovan prosecution service is undergoing reform to strengthen its independence and effectiveness. On 16 December 2011 a group of experts from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania shared their experiences with their counterparts at a conference in Chişinău as part of a joint project by the OSCE Mission to Moldova and the Prosecutor General’s Office on support for prosecution service reform and capacity building based on the experience of the Baltic States...
18th IPRM meeting takes place in Dvani
Publishing date: 21 December 2011
DVANI, 21 December 2011- The 18th IPRM meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism took place in Dvani today. The meeting was co-facilitated by the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM) and the OSCE...
OSCE Presence in Albania provides Roma and Egyptian schoolchildren with education material
Publishing date: 21 December 2011
The OSCE Presence in Albania provided basic education materials to more than 300 children from the Roma and Egyptian communities in the south-eastern town of Korça...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes Constitutional Court decision in Hungary, concerned over silencing of independent radio
Publishing date: 21 December 2011
VIENNA, 21 December 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today welcomed a Constitutional Court decision that declared unconstitutional several key provisions of Hungary’s 2010 media law. At the same time she expressed concern over the silencing of an independent political talk and news radio in Budapest...
OSCE human rights chief dismayed at Kyrgyzstan Supreme Court decision to uphold Askarov sentence
Publishing date: 20 December 2011
WARSAW, 20 December 2011 – Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), expressed dismay today over the decision of Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court to uphold the life sentence for prominent human rights defender Azimjan Askarov...
Albania’s Electoral Code thorough foundation for elections, improvements still required, say ODIHR and Venice Commission
Publishing date: 20 December 2011
Albania’s Electoral Code provides a thorough technical foundation for democratic elections, according to a Joint Opinion by ODIHR and the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission released on 19 December 2011. However, it says that recent experience in the implementation of the Code since its adoption in 2008 shows that a number of improvements are still required...