News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Office urges Tajikistan to decriminalize defamation and libel laws
Publishing date: 9 October 2008
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan, 9 October 2008- The OSCE Office in Tajikistan co-organized a meeting starting today that called for the decriminalization and libel...
OSCE supports introduction of rule of law course to law curriculum at Ukrainian universities
Publishing date: 9 October 2008
KYIV, 9 October, 2008- Ways to improve the legal education system in Ukraine will be discussed at a conference, co-organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, that opened in Kyiv today...
OSCE Chairman welcomes Russian withdrawal as an important step
Publishing date: 9 October 2008
HELSINKI, 9 October 2008- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, welcomed reports from the OSCE's military monitors in Georgia that Russian troops had withdrawn posts that they had set up near South Ossetia...
OSCE Office in Tajikistan supports expert conference on water management in Central Asia
Publishing date: 9 October 2008
DUSHANBE, 9 October 2008- Improving water management in Central Asia is the focus of an expert conference organized today in Dushanbe by the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS), with the support of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...
OSCE media freedom representative calls for broad public consultations on Albania's draft media law
Publishing date: 8 October 2008
VIENNA, 8 October 2008- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, welcomed the decision of the Albanian authorities to postpone the adoption of a new Law on Radio and Television...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator advocates sustainability of Ukraine's civil society sector
Publishing date: 8 October 2008
KYIV, 8 October, 2008- Evaluating the development of civil society in Ukraine and ways to enhance its sustainability are the focus of an OSCE-organized conference that opened in Kyiv today...
OSCE Mission to Serbia, U.S. Embassy and the Judicial Training Centre help fight money laundering
Publishing date: 8 October 2008
IVANJICA, Serbia, 8 October 2008- Combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism were the focus of a training course for judiciary and police officials which ended in Ivanjica today...