News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports human rights monitoring in pre-trial detention facilities and penitentiaries in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 12 September 2012
A report on monitoring human rights in remand prisons and penitentiaries under Kyrgyzstan’s state penitentiary service GSIN was presented at a roundtable discussion on 12 September 2012 in Bishkek...
Inclusive and accountable governance helps make states secure, say OSCE forum participants in Prague
Publishing date: 12 September 2012
PRAGUE, 12 September 2012- The concluding meeting of the 20th OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum, which is focusing on promoting security and stability through good governance, combating corruption, money laundering and terrorism financing, started in Prague today...
OSCE/ODIHR highlights challenges for abandoned women from migrant households in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 12 September 2012
The challenge of re-integrating wives abandoned by labour migrants into economic and social life in Tajikistan was the focus of a conference held in Dushanbe by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and UN Women on 12 and 13 September 2012...
OSCE/ODIHR opens election observation mission for parliamentary elections in Ukraine
Publishing date: 12 September 2012
KYIV, 12 September 2012 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today formally opened an election observation mission for the 28 October 2012 parliamentary elections in Ukraine. The mission’s deployment follows an invitation from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry...
OSCE Special Representative opens children’s anti-trafficking photo exhibition in Moldova
Publishing date: 12 September 2012
CHISINAU, 12 September 2012 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, opened today an anti-trafficking exhibition of photos by children from Moldovan residential schools...
OSCE/ODIHR presents electoral recommendations in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 11 September 2012
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) began two days of meetings in Astana on 11 September 2012 to present the final report of the Election Observation Mission to the 15 January early parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan...
OSCE Secretary General in Kyiv to discuss Ukraine’s 2013 Chairmanship
Publishing date: 11 September 2012
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier started his official visit to Ukraine on 10 September 2012 with a meeting with Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko to discuss the preparations for the Ukrainian Chairmanship of the OSCE in 2013...