News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE helps to fight wildfires in Armenia
Publishing date: 14 September 2011
YEREVAN, 14 September 2011 – Assessing the risk of wildfires and developing and implementing national fire management policies was the focus of an OSCE-supported roundtable meeting in Yerevan today...
OSCE promotes conservation payment for ecosystem services in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 8 September 2011
ASTANA, 8 September 2011 – Charging for ecosytem services to invest in more coherent and effective nature conservation is the focus of a two-day OSCE-organized workshop that started in Astana today...
OSCE holds workshop on tackling illegal trafficking of environmentally-sensitive commodities
Publishing date: 7 September 2011
ASHGABAT, 7 September, 2011 – Experts and officers from Turkmenistan’s State Customs and Border Services and from the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Turkmenistan are taking part in an OSCE-supported workshop on detecting and preventing illegal transboundary trafficking of waste and other environmentally-sensitive commodities that opened in Ashgabat today...
OSCE supports efficient water use in schools and universities in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 5 August 2011
BISHKEK, 5 August 2011 – Water meters have been installed in 14 schools and university campuses in Bishkek as part of a joint OSCE/Regional Ecological Centre for Central Asia (CAREC) initiative to improve the use of scarce water resources...
OSCE supports raising awareness on human rights and environment for Ukrainian youth
Publishing date: 3 August 2011
A summer camp for children and youth to raise awareness of environmental and human-rights issues, organized by the Ukrainian Youth Association and supported by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) was launched on August 1, 2011 in Lviv region in western Ukraine...
OSCE-supported summer seminar to build trust among communities
Publishing date: 15 July 2011
Seventy young people from both sides of the Dniestr/Nistru River are participating in a summer school in Molovata Noua, Moldova, from 7 to 17 July 2011. The school aims to raise awareness among young people of the role of civil society in dealing with environmental issues...
OSCE Centre helps promote integrated water resource management in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 15 July 2011
ASTANA, 15 July 2010 – Representatives of the OSCE Centre in Astana, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Kazakhstan, the Presidential Administration, state agencies, international organizations, academia, diplomatic corps and non-governmental stakeholders met today to discuss implementing integrated water resource management (IWRM) principles in the country...