News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre helps improve environmental reporting in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 25 November 2011
PAVLODAR, Kazakhstan, 25 November 2011- An OSCE-supported training course on environmental reporting for journalists began yesterday in Pavlodar, Northern Kazakhstan...
OSCE Academy helps Kyrgyzstan’s officials enhance skills in developing international trade policy
Publishing date: 25 November 2011
Kyrgyzstan’s international trade policy priorities were the focus of a 5-day training seminar for top governmental officials from 21 to 25 November jointly organized by the OSCE Academy in Bishkek and the National Institute of Strategic Studies...
OSCE Presence in Albania helps raise awareness to fight discrimination
Publishing date: 25 November 2011
The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Eugen Wollfarth, handed over OSCE Presence-funded information materials on anti-discrimination to the Commissioner for Protection from Discrimination, Irma Baraku, on 25 November 2011...
Human rights in criminal justice the focus of OSCE lectures at Turkmen State University
Publishing date: 25 November 2011
ASHGABAT, 26 November 2011- Some 40 students of the Law Faculty at the Magtymguly Turkmen State University discussed international human rights standards in the administration of criminal justice during an OSCE-organized series of lectures that concluded in Ashgabat today...
OSCE Centre in Astana supports conference on domestic violence
Publishing date: 25 November 2011
ASTANA, 25 November 2011 – A conference to review the implementation of Kazakhstan’s 2009 Law on the Prevention of Domestic Violence and discuss possible amendments began in Astana today...
OSCE Office in Tajikistan helps Ombudsman and civil society prepare for joint monitoring of closed institutions
Publishing date: 25 November 2011
DUSHANBE, 25 November 2011- Monitoring closed institutions was the focus of a five-day training course for 30 civil society representatives and staff of the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman that concluded in Dushanbe today...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine opens interactive classroom for police cadets
Publishing date: 25 November 2011
KYIV, 25 November 2011 – A specially equipped classroom for training police cadets in dealing with domestic violence cases was opened today at the Kyiv Academy of Interior with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU)...