News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Engagement and resolve required to achieve concrete results, Co-Chairs of Geneva International Discussions tell OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 14 November 2013
VIENNA, 14 November 2013 – All participants in the Geneva International Discussions – launched five years ago to address the consequences of the 2008 conflict in Georgia – must show constructive engagement if progress is to be made, OSCE Chairmanship Special Representative for Conflicts Ambassador Andrii Deshchytsia told representatives of OSCE participating States today...
OSCE promotes improvement of legal education in Ukraine
Publishing date: 14 November 2013
KYIV, 14 November 2013 – Representatives of academia and professional community gathered to discuss the quality of legal education and science in Ukraine and ways of improving it at an OSCE-supported conference that started in Kyiv today...
OSCE Special Representative, in Uzbekistan, called for co-operative efforts to stop human trafficking
Publishing date: 13 November 2013
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, in a visit to Uzbekistan from 5 to 9 November 2013, met with key government officials and leaders of non-governmental organizations to discuss ways to strengthen action against modern-day slavery, in co-operation with the civil society...
Georgia should uphold its high media freedom standards, says OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 13 November 2013
TBILISI, 13 November 2013 –OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today called on the Georgian authorities to stay on the path toward media freedom as she ended her visit to Tbilisi...
OSCE Centre helps improve legislation on Aarhus Convention implementation in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 13 November 2013
The OSCE Centre in Astana supported the discussion of amendments to legislative acts on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters under the Aarhus Convention.
OSCE/ODIHR trains imams and community leaders in combating hate crimes against Muslims
Publishing date: 13 November 2013
Imams and community leaders from across the OSCE region learned how to better prevent, monitor and report hate crimes against Muslims during a training session organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) that ended on 11 November 2013 in Warsaw...
OSCE model of co-operative security, confidence-building can serve as inspiration for other regions, says Secretary General, in Korea
Publishing date: 12 November 2013
SEOUL, 12 November 2013 – OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier, in a keynote speech at the 2013 Seoul Defense Dialogue conference today, outlined key historic milestones of the Organization’s development and its principles, and discussed how the OSCE’s concept of comprehensive, co-operative security could serve as inspiration for other regions of the world, including Northeast Asia...