News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE donates equipment to Kyrgyzstan multilingual TV and radio station to promote pluralist, public media
Publishing date: 1 April 2014
OSH, 1 April 2014 – As part of OSCE efforts to support the development of pluralistic and professional media, the OSCE Centre in Bishkek today donated computer equipment to Yntymak TV and Radio in Osh, which is the only media outlet in the southern provinces of the country broadcasting programmes in Kyrgyz, Russian and Uzbek languages...
OSCE/ODIHR human rights assessment mission requested by Ukraine completes field work
Publishing date: 1 April 2014
WARSAW, 1 April 2014- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) announced today that its part of the Human Rights Assessment Mission deployed at the request of the Ukrainian authorities had completed its field work...
OSCE partners with gender institutions to further promote gender equality in BiH
Publishing date: 1 April 2014
The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina signed a memorandum of understanding on 1 April 2014 in Sarajevo with the BiH Gender Equality Agency to support a project on promoting gender equality among political parties and increasing the visibility and skills of women candidates...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro trains municipal workers on gender budgeting
Publishing date: 1 April 2014
The strategies and benefits of effective gender budgeting were highlighted at a training course in Podgorica on 31 March and 1 April 2014 for gender focal points from municipal authorities across Montenegro...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro trains municipal workers on gender budgeting
Publishing date: 1 April 2014
The strategies and benefits of effective gender budgeting were highlighted at a training course in Podgorica on 31 March and 1 April 2014 for gender focal points from municipal authorities across Montenegro...
Attacks against journalists in Spain are unacceptable, says OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 1 April 2014
TORONTO, 1 April 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today expressed today deep concern about the violence and intimidation by police against journalists covering the demonstrations which took place in Madrid on Saturday 29 March 2014...
OSCE Presence, Council of Europe assist Albania in increasing election commissioners’ professionalism
Publishing date: 31 March 2014
TIRANA, 31 March 2014- Best practices and platforms for the training of electoral commissioners were discussed today in Tirana at a roundtable organized by the Central Election Commission (CEC) with the support of the OSCE Presence and the Council of Europe’s office in Albania. Concrete examples of electoral training centres were brought by the directors of two such structures in Georgia and Moldova.