News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Azerbaijan’s President, OSCE Chair-in-Office open OSCE PA Annual Session
Publishing date: 28 June 2014
BAKU, 28 June 2014 – The 23rd OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session has begun in Baku, with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Swiss President and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Didier Burkhalter addressing nearly 300 parliamentarians from more than 50 nations...
Violations of media freedom in eastern Ukraine do not stop, says OSCE media representative
Publishing date: 28 June 2014
VIENNA, 28 June 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today expressed her concern about steps of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” aimed at controlling media of the Donetsk region in Ukraine...
Latest from the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Ukraine based on information received until 26 June 2014, 18:00 (Kyiv time)
Publishing date: 27 June 2014
The situation across the country was calm. A Holocaust memorial was vandalised in Kherson region, and some internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the Roma community faced difficulty in having their housing needs met in Kharkiv. Four SMM monitors from the Luhansk team have been missing for 28 days. Four SMM monitors from the Donetsk team who had been missing for 32 days were released late on 26 June.
At second OSCE-hosted meeting, journalists’ unions adopt action plan to improve media freedom situation in and around Ukraine
Publishing date: 27 June 2014
Collections: Two Countries – One Profession: A dialogue between journalists’ organizations from Russia and Ukraine
VIENNA, 27 June 2014 – Representatives of Ukrainian and Russian journalists’ unions agreed to co-operate on steps to increase journalists’ safety and professionalism as they met again today in Vienna. The meeting was hosted by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media with the purpose to forge a plan to improve the situation for media working in and around Ukraine...
OSCE and partners support regional expert seminar in Tirana on good practices in preventing corruption
Publishing date: 27 June 2014
TIRANA, 27 June 2014 – Fifty-five senior anti-corruption officials and leading civil society representatives from OSCE participating States in eastern and south-eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia came together for a two-day regional expert seminar on preventing corruption. The seminar ended today in Tirana...
OSCE Mission in Kosovo calls for stronger protection of community rights by municipalities
Publishing date: 27 June 2014
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 27 June 2014 – Municipal mechanisms for the protection of community rights and interests should be further improved to ensure more active participation by communities in local governance and public affairs, concludes a report by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo published today...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports camp for high school boys on gender equality
Publishing date: 27 June 2014
For third consecutive year, the OSCE Mission to Skopje supported a week-long camp from 18 to 24 June 2014 as part of the Young Men Leadership Project, organized by YMCA Bitola and US Peace Corps in Krusevo. One of the themes of this year’s camp was gender equality...