News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
On World Environment Day, OSCE Chair calls for greater attention to safety of food and energy sources
Publishing date: 5 June 2013
KYIV, 5 June 2013 – On the occasion of World Environment Day, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara, calls for greater attention to the safety of food and energy sources. This year, World Environment Day runs under the umbrella of the ‘Think.Eat.Save.’ campaign, which encourages people to stop wasting food and help keep the world’s natural resources safe...
OSCE media freedom representative expresses concern about access to information law amendments in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 4 June 2013
MINSK, 4 June 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today expressed concern that draft amendments to the Law on Freedom of Access to Information of Bosnia and Herzegovina would curtail access to information...
OSCE and Armenian police organize discussion on public order management in Yerevan
Publishing date: 4 June 2013
Some 30 police officers, civil society members and international community representatives met on 4 June 2013 in Yerevan to talk about ways how to reform Armenia’s public order management, in particular in the area of street patrolling and policing of public events...
More co-operation between civil society and government needed to better combat hate crimes against the disabled, Oslo seminar participants agree
Publishing date: 4 June 2013
Greater co-operation between civil society, law enforcement agencies and government institutions is needed to improve responses to hate-motivated crimes against people with disabilities, participants said at a regional seminar co-organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Oslo on 4 June 2013...
OSCE Centre in Astana supports training seminar on detection of drugs in large-scale transport
Publishing date: 4 June 2013
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 4 June 2013 – A four-day training seminar on detection of drugs in trains and other means of large-scale transport began today in Almaty...
OSCE trains police in Uzbekistan on operational and investigation legal procedures
Publishing date: 4 June 2013
TASHKENT, 4 June 2013 – An OSCE-organized training course for criminal police started in Tashkent today...
Head of OSCE Mission to BiH welcomes improved co-operation between Croatia and BiH war crimes prosecutors
Publishing date: 3 June 2013
SARAJEVO, 3 June 2013 – The Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Fletcher M. Burton, welcomed today the signing of a protocol between the State Attorney's Office of Croatia and the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina on co-operation in the prosecution of perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide...