News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Cross-border co-operation to prevent drug trafficking focus of OSCE-organized conference
Publishing date: 16 June 2011
VIENNA, 16 June 2011 – An OSCE-organized conference to foster international and regional co-operation to prevent the trafficking of illegal drugs started in Vienna today...
OSCE media freedom representative concerned over detention of BBC reporter in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 16 June 2011
VIENNA, 16 June 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, today expressed concern over the detention of Urunboi Usmonov, a BBC reporter for ten years in Central Asia...
Armenian journalists learn about freedom of expression at OSCE-supported workshop
Publishing date: 16 June 2011
YEREVAN, 16 June 2011 –– International standards and judicial practice with respect to freedom of expression, libel and insult, contempt of court and privacy issues are among the topics of a two-day training workshop that started in Yerevan today.
Moscow Mechanism rapporteur reports to OSCE Permanent Council on situation in Belarus
Publishing date: 16 June 2011
VIENNA, 16 June 2011 – Emmanuel Decaux, OSCE Moscow Mechanism rapporteur, presented to the OSCE Permanent Council today his report about the human rights situation and implementation of OSCE commitments in Belarus since the December 2010 presidential election...
Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania on Gërdec proceedings
Publishing date: 16 June 2011
TIRANA, 16 June 2011- The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Eugen Wollfarth, issued a statement today on the Gërdec case:
OSCE media freedom representative urges Kyrgyzstan not to replace public service broadcaster’s board before elections
Publishing date: 15 June 2011
VIENNA, 15 June 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, today asked Kyrgyzstan’s President Roza Otunbayeva to send back to the Parliament a recently adopted law that would lead to the dismissal of the public service broadcaster’s advisory board...
OSCE signs contract extension to remove remainder of toxic rocket fuel component from Ukraine
Publishing date: 15 June 2011
OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Volodymyr Omelianchuk on 15 June 2011 signed a contract extension with a Russian consortium for the safe disposal of 9,500 tonnes of a toxic rocket fuel component stored in Ukraine...