News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE-supported meeting in Central Asia focuses on countering incitement to terrorism
Publishing date: 8 December 2010
TASHKENT, 9 December 2010- Counter-terrorism experts from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are discussing how to best counter incitement to terrorism and violent extremism at an OSCE-supported regional seminar that began in Tashkent today...
OSCE Special Representative calls for recognition of trafficking in human beings as massive-scale problem in new report
Publishing date: 8 December 2010
VIENNA, 9 December- The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, called on countries to change their perception considering human trafficking as a marginal phenomenon and instead encouraged them to recognize it as a massive-scale modern-day slavery in a speech today to the OSCE Permanent Council...
OSCE Mission and Union of Municipalities of Montenegro award innovative local governments
Publishing date: 8 December 2010
PODGORICA, 9 December 2010- Local governments using innovative and successful practices will be awarded at a ceremony on Friday that is part of the OSCE-supported Best Practices Programme...
OSCE and UN OHCHR in Kosovo mark International Human Rights Day
Publishing date: 8 December 2010
PRISHTINE/PRISTINA, 9 December 2010- On the occasion of the International Human Rights Day, Ambassador Werner Almhofer, the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, and Paul Miller, the Head of the Office in Kosovo for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN OHCHR) said the following:
Promoting effective customs system in Armenia to be discussed at OSCE-supported event
Publishing date: 8 December 2010
YEREVAN, 9 December 2010- Ways to address challenges in customs systems will be the theme of a conference held by the Customs Brokers' Association with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan tomorrow...
Ahead of Human Rights Day, OSCE human rights chief, UN Special Rapporteur call for removing undue restrictions on religious freedom
Publishing date: 8 December 2010
VIENNA, 9 December 2010- Janez Lenarcic, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and Heiner Bielefeldt, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, today called on states to remove undue restrictions on the fundamental freedom of religion or belief...
OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje community policing survey shows improvements
Publishing date: 8 December 2010
SKOPJE, 9 December 2010- A new survey on community policing, conducted by the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje, shows improvements and positive trends, the Head of the Mission, Ambassador Jose Luis Herrero, said today at a workshop on community policing...