News and press releases

ASTANA, 26 April 2011 – Representatives of the legislature, the government, media, civil society and international organizations discussed a draft law on television and radio broadcasting at a meeting organized today by the OSCE Centre in Astana, the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media and Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Communication and Information...

MOSCOW, 21 April 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, concluded today a four-day visit to Moscow, during which she addressed violence against journalists and other media freedom issues with senior Russian officials...

SARAJEVO, 21 April 2011 – The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, in partnership with schools, municipalities, local community councils and non-governmental organizations across the country, has joined a campaign to mark Earth Day by planting trees in several parts of the country, the head of the Mission, Ambassador Gary D. Robbins, said today...

SKOPJE, 21 April 2011 – The OSCE Mission to Skopje today launched five handbooks that look at new aspects of the revised Law on Criminal Procedure...

KYIV, 21 April 2011 – The complete Ukrainian version of a multimedia tool-kit for environmental education in secondary schools was presented by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) and the country’s Education Ministry in Kyiv today...

Fifty representatives of rehabilitation centres, prisons’ administrations, international organizations and civil society took part in an OSCE-supported event to celebrate the seventh anniversary of "Atlantis" rehabilitation centres for drug and alcohol-addicted inmates on 21 April, 2011 at the Training Centre of the State Service of Execution of Punishment in Bishkek...

Ambassador Sergey Kapinos, Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, and Police Lieutenant-General Alik Sargsyan, Head of the Armenian Police, on 21 April 2011 signed an additional protocol to a Memorandum on Co-operation that had been agreed on November 2008...