News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE meeting opens with call to strengthen rule of law to protect human rights
Publishing date: 11 July 2013
VIENNA, 11 July 2013 – Governments should take steps to further strengthen the rule of law to better protect human rights, participants said today at the opening of the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting in Vienna...
ODIHR meeting examines good practices and challenges in regulating NGO access to foreign funding
Publishing date: 11 July 2013
The importance of fundraising – and access to sources of foreign funding, in particular – to allowing NGOs to freely conduct their activities was highlighted in a meeting organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Vienna on 11 July 2013...
Improving transparency and democratic functioning of political parties focus of ODIHR seminar
Publishing date: 11 July 2013
Strategies to improve the internal democratic functioning of political parties were highlighted at an expert seminar organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw on 10 and 11 July 2013...
Border delimitation and demarcation topic of OSCE meeting in Central Asia
Publishing date: 11 July 2013
A two-day seminar on delimitation and demarcation in Central Asia was organized by the OSCE in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan on 4 and 5 July...
OSCE media freedom representative and Minister Ivanovski agree on improvements to draft media law
Publishing date: 10 July 2013
VIENNA, 10 July 2013 – The OSCE media freedom representative, Dunja Mijatović, today discussed the draft Law on Media and Audiovisual Services with the Minister of Information Society and Administration, Ivo Ivanovski who arrived in Vienna from Skopje today...
OSCE Centre supports discussion on water management and green economy development in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 10 July 2013
KYZYLORDA, Kazakhstan, 10 July 2013 – An international conference on best practices in integrated water resource management as part of the Kazakhstan’s national strategy on the transition to a green economy began in Kyzylorda today...
Afghan and Tajik customs officers learn about airport customs procedures in OSCE training course
Publishing date: 10 July 2013
DUSHANBE, 10 July 2013 – Fourteen senior and mid-level customs officers from Afghanistan and Tajikistan successfully completed a week-long training course on international airport customs procedures at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe today...