News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Second of three seminars in Georgia focused on human rights monitoring and reporting
Publishing date: 5 July 2002
TBILISI, 5 July 2002- The second of three training seminars on international human rights law and relevant monitoring techniques ended today in Georgia. Participants from eight different cities, among them representatives of 21 Georgian...
OSCE helps rehabilitation of earthquake child victims in Georgia
Publishing date: 18 June 2002
TBILISI, 18 June 2002- A fund raised by an OSCE charity ball is being used to provide psycho-social rehabilitation to 75 children from internally displaced families who were heavily affected by an earthquake in Georgia last April...
OSCE experts visited Gudauta base in Abkhazia, Georgia
Publishing date: 17 June 2002
TBILISI, 17 June 2002- A team of four OSCE military experts on Saturday, 15 June 2002, conducted a two-hour visit to the Gudauta base in Abkhazia, Georgia...
OSCE experts to visit Gudauta base in Abkhazia, Georgia
Publishing date: 15 June 2002
TBILISI, 15 June 2002- A team of four OSCE military experts, headed by Colonel Laszlo Belagyi of the OSCE Mission to Georgia, will today visit the Gudauta base in Abkhazia, Georgia, as preparation for later inspection...
Seminar in Georgia focuses on human rights monitoring and reporting
Publishing date: 10 May 2002
TBILISI, 10 May 2002- International human rights law and monitoring techniques will be the focus of a series of training seminars that started today in the Georgian capital Tbilisi. The training seminars are initiated by the OSCE's...
Weapons into Water: OSCE rehabilitates water canal in exchange for weapons in Georgia
Publishing date: 17 April 2002
TBILISI, 17 April 2002- Under the supervision of the OSCE Mission to Georgia, repair works will start immediately on a 30 km irrigation canal running through both Georgian and Ossetian villages in the zone of conflict. "The Irrigation Project...
Melange Project: beating dangerous fuel into fertilizer
Publishing date: 28 March 2002
TBILISI, 28 March 2002- An OSCE-supervised project in Georgia to produce fertilizers from extremely dangerous missile fuel is well underway. Two German experts working on the field gave positive account of their evaluation of the "Melange...