News and press releases

The role of the Aarhus Centre in facilitating co-operation between various environmental stakeholders was discussed at a roundtable meeting, organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, the Sustainable Development and Tourism Ministry and the Environmental Protection Agency, in Podgorica on 19 May 2011...

A four-day OSCE-supported train-the-trainers event on women’s leadership and political party participation is taking place in Issyk-Kul province, Kyrgyzstan, from 21 to 24 May. It begins with a one-day training session for the Women’s Parliamentary Caucus and is followed by a three-day intensive course for representatives of eight major political parties.

In an effort to improve access to students’ services for non-Albanian communities, the OSCE Mission in Kosovo supported an internship, from 2 to 13 May, at Dublin City University, Ireland, for the Co-ordinator of the Student and Youth Support Centre of the University in Mitrovica/Mitrovicë- Gračanica/Graçanicë Campus...

TALAS, Kyrgyzstan, 20 May 2011– A training seminar initiated by the Education and Interior Ministries with the support of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek will start tomorrow in the city of Talas in northern Kyrgyzstan...

High-level representatives of the Environment and Security (ENVSEC) Initiative Partners met in Vienna on 18 May 2011 for the first Management Board meeting since the OSCE assumed its 2011 chairmanship in the six-agency partnership...

According to the final assessment report published by ODIHR on 16 May, Estonia’s 6 March parliamentary elections were “conducted in an environment characterized by respect for fundamental rights and freedoms and a high degree of trust in the impartiality of the election administration...

ASTANA, 19 May 2011 – Representatives of the government, parliament, civil society and the international organizations in Kazakstan discussed the new draft migration law at an OSCE workshop in Astana today...