News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Amendments to Bulgaria's criminal code can curb media freedom, warns OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 21 April 2011
VIENNA, 21 April 2011– Amendments to Bulgaria's criminal code can threaten media freedom, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, said today...
OSCE Mission to Moldova supports prosecution service reform
Publishing date: 20 April 2011
CHISINAU, 20 April 2011 – The role of prosecutors and reform of prosecution services were discussed today at a roundtable event held by the OSCE Mission to Moldova in co-operation with the General Prosecutor’s Office...
OSCE Centre supports training seminar for regional prosecutors in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 20 April 2011
ASTANA, 20 April 2011 – A three-day OSCE-supported training for Kazakhstani prosecutors on overseeing the implementation of international agreements began today...
OSCE Mission to Skopje trains civil servants on drafting legislation
Publishing date: 20 April 2011
SKOPJE, 20 April 2011- Members of the public and state administration dealing with legislative drafting will learn to improve their skills through an OSCE-supported project launched in Skopje today...
Experts discuss ways to strengthen independence of Kyrgyz judiciary at OSCE-organized meeting
Publishing date: 20 April 2011
BISHKEK, 20 April 2011- Identifying ways to strengthen the independence of Kyrgyzstan’s judiciary is the focus of a meeting organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the Supreme Court of the Kyrgyz Republic today in Bishkek...
ODIHR to monitor early parliamentary elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Publishing date: 19 April 2011
ODIHR conducted a needs assessment mission to Skopje from 5 through 7 April in order to assess the pre-election environment and preparations for the early parliamentary elections scheduled for 5 June...
OSCE Special Representative, in Kosovo, highlights need to improve criminal justice response to human trafficking
Publishing date: 19 April 2011
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 19 April 2011 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, stressed today the need to improve the criminal justice response to human trafficking at a training session for judges and prosecutors in Prishtinë/Priština...