News and press releases

The Kyrgyz Ministry of Emergency Situations awarded the OSCE Centre in Bishkek the title of “Partner of the Year- 2015” at a ceremony in Bishkek on 19 February 2016 as part of the Strategy on Disaster Risk Reduction 2030 Forum...

Awards recognizing best practices in local governance in Montenegro’s municipalities over the course of this year were presented at a ceremony organized on 28 December 2015 in Podgorica by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro in co-operation with the Union of Municipalities and the Ministry of Interior...

ASTANA, 21 December 2015 – An OSCE-supported seminar on implementing the recently-adopted laws on access to information and on public councils took place today in Astana bringing together some 70 high-level governmental officials, parliamentarians, representatives of civil society, national experts and journalists...

BISHKEK, 18 December 2015 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek in co-operation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today organized a roundtable discussion for some twenty representatives from the legislature, academia, expert community, think-tanks and international organizations to discuss the importance of civil society’s monitoring of parliament...

The accessibility of municipal public buildings for persons with disabilities was the focus of a two-day conference organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro in partnership with the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism and the Union of Municipalities of Montenegro on 16 and 17 December in Budva...

The OSCE Mission to Skopje organized a public forum in Kichevo municipality on 11 December 2015 to promote the inclusion of civil society in decision-making process and to increase the co-operation between the municipality and the civil sector in policy implementation...

An OSCE-supported international conference on modern anti-corruption policies took place on 11 December 2015 in Astana, Kazakhstan, bringing together some 70 representatives from government agencies, civil society, embassies and international organizations...