News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre supports publication of report on human rights in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 19 September 2012
On 19 September 2012, Ambassador Natalia Zarudna, the Head of the OSCE Centre in Astana, spoke at a presentation of the 2011 Annual Human Rights Situation Report translated and published with the support from the Centre...
Head of OSCE Presence welcomes restriction of MPs’ and judges’ immunities in Albania
Publishing date: 19 September 2012
TIRANA, 18 September 2012- The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Eugen Wollfarth, welcomed today the approval of amendments to the Constitution by the Albanian Assembly, restricting the general immunity from criminal prosecution of Members of Parliament, judges and other high-level officials...
OSCE Secretary General addresses Italian Parliament
Publishing date: 18 September 2012
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier spoke before the Italian Parliament in Rome on 18 September 2012...
OSCE Centre in Astana supports gender awareness in policymaking
Publishing date: 18 September 2012
An OSCE-supported seminar on integrating gender issues into policies for civil servants from Kazakhstan started in Astana on 18 September 2012...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine trains judges on election legislation
Publishing date: 18 September 2012
Uniform interpretation of the election legislation is the focus of two training seminars for Ukraine’s administrative court judges that started on 18 September 2012 in Odessa with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU)...
Poland should abolish criminal defamation, says OSCE media freedom representative following conviction of editor
Publishing date: 17 September 2012
VIENNA, 17 September 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today criticised a criminal conviction of Robert Frycz, the editor of Antykomor.pl website, for insulting the President of Poland, and called for decriminalization of defamation in the country...
OSCE trains Uzbekistan’s diplomatic staff to protect human trafficking victims
Publishing date: 17 September 2012
TASHKENT, 17 September 2012- A three-day OSCE training course to help Uzbekistan’s diplomatic and consular personnel identify, assist and protect trafficking victims started today in Tashkent...