News and press releases

TIRANA, 22 December 2011- The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Eugen Wollfarth, welcomed today the election of the new People’s Advocate (Ombudsman) by the Albanian parliament...

ASHGABAT, 23 December 2011 – Legal experts from the Justice Ministry, the Institute of State and Law and the National Institute of Democracy and Human Rights (NIDHR) under the President of Turkmenistan took part in an OSCE-supported seminar on legislative drafting which concluded in Ashgabat today...

VIENNA, 22 December 2011 – The Lithuanian OSCE Chairmanship and the Irish Chairmanship of the Advisory Committee on Management and Finance welcomed today’s decision by all 56 OSCE participating States to approve the Unified Budget for 2012, amounting to 148,055,400 euros...

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) launched a public awareness campaign on communicating with public officials on 22 December 2011...

The Moldovan prosecution service is undergoing reform to strengthen its independence and effectiveness. On 16 December 2011 a group of experts from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania shared their experiences with their counterparts at a conference in Chişinău as part of a joint project by the OSCE Mission to Moldova and the Prosecutor General’s Office on support for prosecution service reform and capacity building based on the experience of the Baltic States...

DVANI, 21 December 2011- The 18th IPRM meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism took place in Dvani today. The meeting was co-facilitated by the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM) and the OSCE...

The OSCE Presence in Albania provided basic education materials to more than 300 children from the Roma and Egyptian communities in the south-eastern town of Korça...