News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Kyrgyzstan presents National Action Plan on increasing government’s accountability, developed with OSCE support
Publishing date: 24 October 2018
Kyrgyzstan’ Prime Minister Muhammedkaliy Abylgaziev presented a two-year national action plan (NAP) that aims to increase the accountability of the Government’s work in Bishkek on 23 October 2018. The NAP was developed jointly by the Government and civil society within the framework of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), with the support of the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek.
Austria’s Haider appointed OSCE PA Special Representative on Central Asia
Publishing date: 11 October 2018
COPENHAGEN, 11 October 2018 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President George Tsereteli (MP, Georgia) has appointed Austrian parliamentarian Roman Haider to serve as the Assembly’s Special Representative on Central Asia...
Strengthening capacities of Herzegovina-Neretva Canton anti-corruption team focus of OSCE-supported workshop
Publishing date: 24 September 2018
The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), in co-ordination with the BiH Agency for the Prevention of Corruption and Co-ordination of the Fight against Corruption, organized a one-day workshop for the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton (HNC) Anti-corruption Team and anti-corruption focal points within the ministries of the Herzegovina-Neretva cantonal government on 20 September 2018 in Mostar.
OSCE Mission to Skopje promotes training programme for municipal councillors
Publishing date: 21 September 2018
Representatives of twenty municipal councils were introduced to an the OSCE training programme designed to promote democratic governance through improved work of local elected officials during the promotional events that took place in Ohrid and Skopje on 19, 20 and 21 September.
OSCE/ODIHR partners with pro-democracy bodies in release of proposed global agenda on improving democratic institutions
Publishing date: 14 September 2018
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) teamed up with other organizations working in the area of promoting democracy today in publishing an agenda to focus attention on the constructive and concrete steps that different actors can take to respond to populism by strengthening democracy.
OSCE supports training seminar on managing corruption risks for public officials in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 14 September 2018
An OSCE-supported training seminar on corruption risks management in the public sector concluded on 14 September 2018 in Astana...
OSCE family supports greater co-operation and integration among countries of Central Asia and Afghanistan, OSCE PA Vice-President Guliyev says in Tashkent
Publishing date: 12 September 2018
TASHKENT, 12 September 2018 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Vice-President Azay Guliyev (Azerbaijan) is in Tashkent where he spoke today at the seminar on the “Role of Parliaments in engaging Afghanistan into Central Asian Cooperation Frameworks through Preventive Diplomacy” by the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia...