News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Chairman-in-Office voices deep concern at "harsh" jail sentence imposed on Belarusian opposition leader
Publishing date: 14 July 2006
BRUSSELS, 14 July 2006- OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, has expressed his deep concern following the announcement yesterday of guilty verdicts and a jail sentence on Dr. Alexander Kozulin, an opposition candidate...
OSCE Centre in Ashgabat organizes training courses on human rights
Publishing date: 14 July 2006
ASHGABAD, 14 July 2006- International human rights standards and ways to implement and protect them were the focus of training courses held from 3 to 14 July in Dashoguz and Turkmenabat. Organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabad and...
OSCE Yerevan Office presents its views on human rights to secondary school teachers
Publishing date: 30 June 2006
YEREVAN, 30 June 2006- An OSCE human rights expert shared her knowledge today with 55 secondary school teachers who are taking a year-long class on human rights...
OSCE Mission calls for adequate resources to help rehabilitate torture victims
Publishing date: 26 June 2006
PRISTINA- 26 June 2006- The Acting Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Jens Modvig, marked the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture today by calling for rehabilitation resources to be made available to torture victims...
OSCE's office in Ukraine organizes training seminar on role of business in the community
Publishing date: 23 June 2006
KHARKIV, 23 June 2006- An OSCE-led training seminar to show business leaders how they can help strengthen the community opened today in the Eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv...
Croatian democratic institutions made considerable progress, OSCE Mission report says
Publishing date: 13 June 2006
ZAGREB, 13 June 2006- Croatia's democratic institutions in the field of civil society, police and media have made considerable progress towards becoming self-sustainable, the OSCE Mission to Croatia says in a report that will be presented to OSCE...
OSCE and UN hold roundtable on prison conditions in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 1 June 2006
DUSHANBE, 1 June 2006- How to improve conditions at detention facilities in Tajikistan was the theme of a roundtable organized by the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe and the United Nations Office of Peace-building in Tajikistan...