News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE to train Kosovo Police on protection of cultural and religious heritage
Publishing date: 18 June 2013
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 18 June 2013 – The OSCE Mission will organize tomorrow a first training session for the members of the newly established Kosovo Police unit responsible for the protection of cultural and religious heritage sites in the Prishtinë/Priština region...
Azerbaijani MP proposes vote on greater role for civil society
Publishing date: 18 June 2013
COPENHAGEN, 17 June 2013 – A parliamentarian from Azerbaijan has called for OSCE countries to show more openness and greater engagement with civil society in a resolution now pending before the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly...
Skopje city administrators to be trained on new assessment technique, with OSCE’s help
Publishing date: 18 June 2013
SKOPJE, 18 June 2013 – Staff at Skopje’s city administration will be introduced today to a new quality measurement standard aimed at improving work processes and professional performance at a training course initiated by the Ministry of Information Society and Administration and supported by the OSCE...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports workshops on local elections
Publishing date: 18 June 2013
Identifying lessons to be learned from the March local elections was the aim of four regional workshops for local election administration bodies organized from 13 to 18 June 2013 by the OSCE Mission to Skopje...
OSCE trains Tajik investigators on corruption disclosure and investigation techniques of corruption-related crimes
Publishing date: 18 June 2013
DUSHANBE, 18 June 2013 – A training on corruption disclosure and investigation techniques of corruption-related crimes ended at the OSCE Office in Tajikistan today...
Libya applies to become OSCE partner
Publishing date: 17 June 2013
Libyan Foreign Minister, Mohamed Imhammed Abdul-Aziz submitted his country's application to become an OSCE Partner for Co-operation during the Security Days conference in Vienna on 17 June 2013...
Human rights compatible with security, OSCE media freedom representatives tells Tunis meeting participants
Publishing date: 17 June 2013
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, told participants on at an Internet freedom conference in Tunis on 17 June 2013 that cyber security and human rights can go hand-in-glove and not be considered as competing values...