News and press releases

An OSCE-supported inter-cultural summer camp for 45 secondary school students of different ethnic backgrounds in Skopje and Tetovo municipalities is taking place from 8 to 15 September 2013 in Struga...

Ahead of Tajikistan’s presidential election campaign, the start of which will be announced at a special joint session of Parliament on 30 August, the OSCE Office in Tajikistan brought young politicians from Dushanbe, representing the ruling coalition and opposition parties, together with local authorities and young activists at meetings on 15 August 2013 in Kurgan-Tyube, the administrative centre of Khatlon region...

BAKU, 23 August 2013 – The OSCE Office in Baku, in co-operation with the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan and the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan, held today in Baku the first in a series of sessions on the importance of non-interference in election processes in the run-up to the Presidential elections on 9 October 2013...

ASTANA, 20 August 2013- A draft law on state support for non-governmental organizations was the focus of today’s roundtable discussion organized by the Culture and Information Ministry with the support of the OSCE Centre in Astana...

Promoting the role of women as political party decision-makers and candidates for public office ahead of 2014 local elections was the focus of a training session co-organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw from 12 to 13 August 2013...

The Acting Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Robert Wilton, welcomed the conclusion of the electoral process in Albania, which was marked by the declaration of the final results by the Central Election Commission on 6 August 2013...

On 20 July 2013, some 20 government and civil society representatives took part in a seminar in Nakhchivan, an autonomous republic in Azerbaijan, on the country’s legislation regulating the prevention of domestic violence...