News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Model OSCE conference in Bishkek engages youth in building consensus on managing trans-boundary waters
Publishing date: 9 April 2016
BISHKEK, 9 April, 2016 – Thirty-five young people gathered in Bishkek today for the start of a two-day Model OSCE conference, simulating a meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council, to discuss challenges to cross-border water management in Central Asia...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities supports conference on education in multilingual and multicultural contexts in Central Asia
Publishing date: 31 March 2016
The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities co-organized a conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on 28 to 29 March 2016 on education challenges in multilingual and multicultural contexts in Central Asia. The conference, organized with the French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IEFAC), UNICEF
High Commissioner on National Minorities visits Bosnia and Herzegovina and calls for quality inclusive education for all
Publishing date: 24 March 2016
The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Astrid Thors visited Bosnia and Herzegovina from 20 to 24 March 2016, focusing extensively on education matters, visiting schools and educational facilities, meeting with pupils, parents and teachers and witnessing efforts made to bridge divides and develop joint activities...
OSCE Mission to Skopje-supported fund continues building bridges between communities
Publishing date: 18 February 2016
SKOPJE, 18 February 2016 – The OSCE-supported Building Bridges Fund, launched in 2014, will continue for a third year, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje Nina Suomalainen announced today...
OSCE Academy in Bishkek receives new license for Master’s programme
Publishing date: 18 February 2016
BISHKEK, 18 February 2016 – The Kyrgyz Ministry of Education and Science issued a new license for the OSCE Academy’s Master’s Degree programme in Political Science with focus on Central Asia. Sergey Kapinos, the Head of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, today presented the license to the Academy’s Director Pal Dunay at the OSCE Centre’s premises...
OSCE promotes human rights protection though improving standards of judicial education in Ukraine
Publishing date: 23 December 2015
An international conference on safeguarding human rights through national standards for judicial education was co-organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine on 18 December 2015 in Kyiv, bringing together local judges, judges of the European Court of Human Rights, experts, and representatives of academia, international organizations and national NGOs...
Students from Kyrgyz Diplomatic Academy discuss regional security in OSCE-supported lecture
Publishing date: 22 December 2015
BISHKEK, 22 December 2015- The OSCE Centre in Bishkek and Kyrgyz OSCE Youth Ambassador Elvira Kalmurzaeva, in co-operation with the Kyrgyz Diplomatic Academy of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, held an open lecture in Bishkek today for master’s students on the OSCE’s role in regional security...