News and press releases

ROME, 2 February 2011 – Courts should protect trafficked persons' rights and enable them to take an active role throughout criminal proceedings, said Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings today in a high-level roundtable meeting organized by the Italian National Judicial Council...

MOSCOW, 2 February 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis met with Russian high-level politicians and officials in Moscow today to outline the priorities of the Lithuanian OSCE Chairmanship and to discuss the Organization’s activities in 2011...

Identifying ways to further democratize the judicial-legal system and strengthen judicial independence in Uzbekistan were the focus of a meeting held in Tashkent on 31 January 2010 by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan and the National Human Rights Centre of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

TIRANA, 31 January 2011 – Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania calls for protection of media freedom and respect for the rule of law during investigations into the tragic events of 21 January in Tirana which claimed the lives of 3 people...

VILNIUS, 31 January 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, welcomed today's decision by the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, not to hold a referendum on extending his term of office...

BELGRADE, 28 January 2011 – The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Dimitrios Kypreos, welcomed today the adoption of the Interior Ministry’s 2011-2016 Development Strategy, saying it advances the country's police reform work...

VILNIUS, 21 January 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, called today on all in Albania to refrain from using violence, following clashes that have caused several deaths and numerous injuries...