News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Maximizing innovative entrepreneurship for job creation essential to peace and prosperity in OSCE region, say participants at Vienna discussion
Publishing date: 23 January 2017
VIENNA, 23 January 2017- Good governance, business partnerships and prevention of radicalization through job and business creation – essential to peace and prosperity in the OSCE region – are the focus of the two-day first Preparatory Meeting of the 25th OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum, which opened today in Vienna...
OSCE Office in Yerevan holds workshop on environmental education
Publishing date: 23 December 2016
A workshop on environmental education, organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan in co-operation with the Armenian Nature Protection Ministry, was held on 23 December 2016 in Yerevan...
Regional conference for Aarhus Centres representatives and environmental NGOs organized by OSCE Mission to Montenegro
Publishing date: 21 December 2016
A regional conference on the Aarhus Centres’ co-operation with public administration on national and local levels, organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Montenegro’s Sustainable Development and Tourism Ministry and the NGO Ozon/Aarhus Centre Nikšić was held on 21 December 2016 in Podgorica...
OSCE-organized study tour for Belarusian representatives on implementation of Aarhus Convention concludes in Rome
Publishing date: 21 December 2016
ROME, 21 December 2016 – Thirteen representatives of different Belarusian state institutions, local administrations and Aarhus Centres today completed a three-day study tour to Rome on implementing the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters. The visit was co-organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA)...
OSCE Office in Yerevan holds workshop on implementing Aarhus Convention
Publishing date: 5 December 2016
The implementation of the Aarhus Convention in the context of recent constitutional and legal developments in Armenia was the theme of a workshop held by the OSCE office in Yerevan on 2 December 2016 in co-operation with Armenia’s Ministry of Nature Protection and the Centre of Economical-Legal Analysis (CELA)...
OSCE PA’s economic and environmental committee leaders applaud historic effort to contain Chernobyl contamination
Publishing date: 29 November 2016
COPENHAGEN, 29 November 2016 – Welcoming the unveiling of a giant new dome being placed over Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s fourth reactor in Ukraine – the site 30 years ago of the worst accident in the history of nuclear power in the world – the leadership of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s General Committee on Economic Affairs, Science, Technology and Environment today issued the following statement...
Judges trained on environmental matters at OSCE event in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 29 November 2016