News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities visits Georgia ahead of elections
Publishing date: 25 July 2012
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Knut Vollebaek visited Georgia from 15 to 19 July 2012 to get an update on the situation ahead of parliamentary elections expected in October...
Head of OSCE Mission to Moldova meets with Moldovan Metropolitan Vladimir
Publishing date: 24 July 2012
CHISINAU, 24 July 2012- The Head of OSCE Mission to Moldova, Ambassador Jennifer Brush, met with his Holiness Metropolitan Vladimir, the head of the Moldovan Orthodox Church, in Chisinau today. This was the first time that the OSCE Mission to Moldova has officially met with the head of the Moldovan Orthodox Church...
OSCE media freedom representative concerned by new Internet restrictions in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 24 July 2012
VIENNA, 24 July 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed concern today over the blocking of news.tj, the website of Tajikistan’s Asia-Plus main independent news agency, and called for lifting the ban on this and other Internet resources in the country...
OSCE Mission in Kosovo calls for improvements in civil registration of vulnerable communities
Publishing date: 24 July 2012
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 24 July 2012 – Vulnerable communities in Kosovo face difficulties with civil registration which continue to hinder their social inclusion, says an OSCE report issued today...
ODIHR provides recommendations on establishing a population register in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 23 July 2012
An expert team from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented its assessment and recommendations on how to best establish a fully computerized population register in Kyrgyzstan at a launch event in Bishkek on 24 July 2012...
OSCE-sponsored summer school brings young people from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru closer together
Publishing date: 23 July 2012
For ten days in July 2012, 80 young people from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru river took part in an OSCE-supported summer school at Saharna, a beach resort on the river...
OSCE Presence in Albania donates computers, trains staff of Justice Ministry's prison service
Publishing date: 20 July 2012
TIRANA, 20 July 2012 – The OSCE Presence in Albania donated today several computers to the Albanian Justice Ministry’s Internal Control Service of Prisons (ICSP) as part of an OSCE project which also includes assistance with amending internal regulations, training staff and implementing an electronic monitoring project...