News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Office in Baku awards grants to civil society projects addressing environment and security issues
Publishing date: 21 June 2011
BAKU, 22 June 2011 – The OSCE Office in Baku today announced that four non-governmental organizations that work in the field of environment and security will receive small grants to finance their work...
OSCE-supported Neighbourhood Watch holds discussions with Bishkek residents
Publishing date: 21 June 2011
A roundtable discussion on a project to promote public safety, co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the non-governmental organization Neighbourhood Watch, was held in Bishkek on 21 June 2011...
OSCE human rights chief calls for end to segregation and discrimination against Roma children in Czech schools
Publishing date: 21 June 2011
WARSAW, 21 June 2011 – Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), said more must to be done to end the persisting segregation and discrimination of Roma children in the Czech school system following the release of a United Nations report today...
OSCE-hosted roundtable meeting in northern Tajikistan marks anniversary of peace accord
Publishing date: 21 June 2011
The OSCE Office in Tajikistan's Khujand Field Office, the Sughd regional authorities and the Civil Society Centre held a roundtable meeting on 21 June 2011 to mark 14th anniversary of the Peace Agreement in Tajikistan...
Irish Deputy Prime Minister to address OSCE on Wednesday
Publishing date: 21 June 2011
VIENNA, 21 June 2011- Ireland's Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore, will address the OSCE on Wednesday...
OSCE media freedom representative appeals to Kyrgyzstan's Parliament to reconsider restrictions on media
Publishing date: 21 June 2011
VIENNA, 21 June 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed concern today about laws and resolutions recently adopted by the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan that could potentially limit media pluralism in the country...
Human trafficking for labour exploitation is modern-day slavery, OSCE Special Representative says at Alliance conference
Publishing date: 20 June 2011
VIENNA, 20 June 2011 – Human trafficking for labour exploitation is a new form of slavery that occurs on a massive scale, the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, said today at an OSCE-hosted conference that highlights how decent work and social justice can prevent it...