News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Protecting children from trafficking is top priority, says OSCE Special Representative during visit to Moldova
Publishing date: 1 November 2011
CHISINAU, 1 November 2011 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, during her visit to Moldova today called on the country to continue improving measures to prevent human trafficking, including trafficking for labour exploitation, and protect victims' rights, including access to compensation and long-term support for the social inclusion of victims, especially child victims...
OSCE/ODIHR and partners promote debate on political party financing in Moldova
Publishing date: 28 October 2011
Representatives of political parties, government bodies and non-governmental organizations discussed ways to meet OSCE commitments to pluralism in the financing of political parties at a two-day conference co-organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems on 27 and 28 October 2011 in Chisinau...
OSCE media freedom representative calls on Moldova to release Russian writer and journalist blogger
Publishing date: 30 September 2011
VIENNA, 30 September 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today called upon Moldovan authorities to release Eduard Bagirov, a writer and journalist blogger, who has been held in pre-trial detention since mid-June...
OSCE Mission to Moldova holds conference on reform of public broadcaster
Publishing date: 23 September 2011
CHISINAU, 23 September 2011 – Reform of the public broadcaster Teleradio-Moldova was the focus of a high-level conference held today in Chisinau by the OSCE Mission to Moldova...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office welcomes resumption of official ‘5+2’ negotiations on Transdniestrian settlement
Publishing date: 22 September 2011
NEW YORK/MOSCOW, 22 September 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, welcomed today’s agreement in Moscow to resume official ‘5+2’ negotiations on the Transdniestrian settlement...
OSCE hosts meeting of Moldovan and Transdniestrian leaders
Publishing date: 9 September 2011
BAD REICHENHALL, Germany, 9 September 2011 – The Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audrionus Ažubalis, opened a bilateral meeting between the leaders of the sides in the Transdniestrian conflict- Prime Minister Vlad Filat of Moldova and Transdniestrian leader Igor Smirnov – in the German town of Bad Reichenhall today...
