News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Freedom of expression at stake, warns OSCE media freedom representative following Pussy Riot verdict
Publishing date: 17 August 2012
VIENNA, 17 August 2012 – Responding to the verdict against the Russian punk band Pussy Riot today, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović warned of a dangerous tendency towards curbing freedom of expression...
Armenian teachers complete one-year human rights training course supported by OSCE Office
Publishing date: 17 August 2012
Twenty-two secondary school teachers of social sciences from various Armenian regions are participating in a six-day training session in Tsaghkadzor in the Kotayk province of Armenia that concludes on 18 August 2012...
OSCE fosters professional development of penitentiary officers in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 17 August 2012
BISHKEK, 17 August 2012 – A one-month training course by the OSCE Centre for officers representing all of Kyrgyzstan’s correctional colonies and remand prisons concluded in Bishkek today...
OSCE helps young people in Uzbekistan become environmentally aware
Publishing date: 15 August 2012
TASHKENT, 16 August 2012 – Sixty-five young boys and girls will learn about the importance of taking care of the environment at an environmental summer camped opened by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan today...
OSCE Centre in Astana supports discussion on countering discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance
Publishing date: 14 August 2012
ASTANA, Kazakhstan, 14 August 2012 – Some 40 representatives of state agencies and non-governmental organizations gathered at a roundtable meeting today to discuss the combined sixth and seventh periodic reports of Kazakhstan on the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination...
OSCE media freedom representative calls for ‘teddy bear’ charges against Belarusian journalist to be dropped
Publishing date: 8 August 2012
VIENNA, 8 August 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today asked Belarusian authorities to drop charges against Anton Suryapin, who faces up to seven years in prison for uploading photos of teddy bears that had been released by plane into Belarus...
OSCE helps mainstream human rights into training for police officers in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 8 August 2012
TASHKENT, 8 August 2012- A two-day OSCE-supported training seminar for police officers promoting awareness of the international human rights standards and role of the police in ensuring and protecting human rights opened in Tashkent today...