News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports training for municipal financial officers
Publishing date: 19 May 2006
SKOPJE, 19 May 2006- A workshop teaching 50 municipal financial officers about newly designed software that will make budget execution and financial reporting in local government units more efficient and transparent started today in Bitola...
OSCE roundtable meeting in Almaty focuses on electoral reform in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 19 May 2006
ALMATY, 19 May 2006- Experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, politicians and representatives of civil society gathered today in Almaty for a roundtable discussion aimed at bringing electoral processes in Kazakhstan...
OSCE conference highlights national mechanisms and regional co-operation to combat human trafficking in Central Asia
Publishing date: 18 May 2006
ALMATY, 18 May 2006- Tools to fight human trafficking, including the establishment of national referral mechanisms to combat the crime and protect the human rights of trafficked persons, co-ordination between law enforcement bodies and...
OSCE Skopje Mission helps train pre-school teachers to work in multi-ethnic environment
Publishing date: 18 May 2006
SKOPJE, 18 May 2006- A series of seminars for teachers that ended today in Skopje focused on raising the standards of pre-school education and ensuring the inclusion of all ethnic groups. Twenty school teachers of different ethnic backgrounds from...
Minister De Gucht supports the vital role of NGOs in the context of Belgium's Chairmanship of the OSCE
Publishing date: 16 May 2006
BRUSSELS, 16 May 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, today opened a two-day international conference organized by the OSCE 2006 Coalition of Belgian NGOs and supported by the Belgian government. The aim of...
OSCE/ODIHR mission: Partial repeat parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan underscore continuing need for electoral reform
Publishing date: 15 May 2006
WARSAW/BAKU, 15 May 2006- The partial repeat parliamentary elections in the Republic of Azerbaijan on 13 May reflected improvement in some aspects of the process, but there is a need for ongoing electoral reform, according to the findings by...
OSCE committed to aid rehabilitation in zone of Georgian-Ossetian conflict, says Secretary General
Publishing date: 15 May 2006
TBILISI, 15 May 2006- OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut said today that the Organization is preparing for a donors' meeting for rehabilitation projects in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. "We are working hard...