News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Methods to teach environmental awareness in focus at course organized by OSCE Centre in Astana
Publishing date: 22 November 2010
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 22 November 2010- Promoting environmental education and sustainable development for schoolchildren through multimedia educational packages is the focus of two training seminars organized this week in Almaty by the OSCE Centre...
Transparency and accountability key in reform of Armenia's election laws, participants say at OSCE-supported meeting
Publishing date: 22 November 2010
YEREVAN, 22 November 2010- Armenia's election legislation reform should lead to increased transparency and accountability in the election process, participants said at an OSCE-supported high-level symposium on electoral reform that began in Yerevan...
Support staff hired under OSCE/ODIHR-led project join Serbian courts to work on war crimes cases
Publishing date: 22 November 2010
BELGRADE, 22 November 2010- Serbian Justice Minister Snezana Malovic, today endorsed the hiring of eight support staff members who will assist judges at the Higher and Appellate Court in Belgrade in adjudicating war crimes cases...
Azerbaijani police and internal troops learn how to best deal with crowds at seminar organized by OSCE Office in Baku
Publishing date: 22 November 2010
BAKU, 22 November 2010- A two-week training seminar on non-violent methods for crowd control, organized by the OSCE Office in Baku for police and internal troops began today in Ganja, the second largest city of Azerbaijan...
OSCE Chairmanship calls for new ways to combat security threats
Publishing date: 20 November 2010
LISBON, 20 November 2010- President Nazarbayev at the NATO meeting on Afghanistan, stressed that to combat modern security challenges there needs to be a move from solely using military and police methods to eliminating the sources of these challenges...
Methods to identify trafficking victims focus of OSCE-organized expert discussion in Vienna
Publishing date: 19 November 2010
VIENNA, 19 November 2010- Experts in anti-trafficking discussed today how to help police officers identify human trafficking victims. The conclusions from the OSCE-organized meeting will be included in a guide that will be distributed to police...
OSCE Centre helps strengthen gender sensitivity in southwestern Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 19 November 2010
JALAL-ABAD, Kyrgyzstan, 19 November 2010- Addressing gender issues such as domestic violence, bride kidnapping, polygamy and early marriage were the central theme of an OSCE-supported conference held today in Jalal-Abad...