News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE/ODIHR launches new trial monitoring tools
Publishing date: 26 September 2012
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) launched two new tools, designed to build the capacity of legal practitioners to conduct professional trial monitoring, at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 26 September 2012...
OSCE Chairmanship representative, in Pristina, says further reforms needed to ensure stable future
Publishing date: 26 September 2012
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 26 September 2012 – Ireland remains committed to building a stable future for all the communities in Kosovo, said the representative of the Irish OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office, Minister for European Affairs Lucinda Creighton, in her meetings with leaders in Kosovo today...
Greater independence in public broadcasting and broadcast regulation needed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, says OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 26 September 2012
VIENNA, 26 September 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Fletcher Burton and the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Bosnia and Herzegovina/EU Special Representative, Ambassador Peter Sørensen, today called for legal reforms to ensure the independence of the public service broadcasters and broadcast regulator in Bosnia and Herzegovina...
Freedom of information enhances government transparency, say participants at OSCE human rights conference
Publishing date: 25 September 2012
Participants at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw highlighted measures to promote free access to information held by governments, as well as the importance of providing legal protection to individuals who expose wrongdoing within organizations – so-called whistleblowers...
OSCE Chairmanship representative, in Serbia, calls for implementing reforms, resuming dialogue
Publishing date: 25 September 2012
BELGRADE, 25 September 2012 – The Representative of the Irish OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Minister for European Affairs Lucinda Creighton, during an official visit to Serbia today, stressed the need to move forward with implementing reforms, continuing reconciliation efforts and dialogue, as well as delivering on commitments...
Restrictions on right of association for security personnel should be lifted, say participants at OSCE human rights conference
Publishing date: 25 September 2012
Unnecessary and disproportionate restrictions on the right of association for police and military personnel should be lifted, said participants at the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 25 September 2012...
OSCE Mission to Moldova hosts human rights discussion in Transdniestria with UN’s Hammarberg
Publishing date: 25 September 2012