News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre supports rehabilitation for drug and alcohol-addicted inmates in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 21 April 2011
Fifty representatives of rehabilitation centres, prisons’ administrations, international organizations and civil society took part in an OSCE-supported event to celebrate the seventh anniversary of "Atlantis" rehabilitation centres for drug and alcohol-addicted inmates on 21 April, 2011 at the Training Centre of the State Service of Execution of Punishment in Bishkek...
OSCE Office and Armenian Police enhance co-operation
Publishing date: 21 April 2011
Ambassador Sergey Kapinos, Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, and Police Lieutenant-General Alik Sargsyan, Head of the Armenian Police, on 21 April 2011 signed an additional protocol to a Memorandum on Co-operation that had been agreed on November 2008...
Amendments to Bulgaria's criminal code can curb media freedom, warns OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 21 April 2011
VIENNA, 21 April 2011– Amendments to Bulgaria's criminal code can threaten media freedom, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, said today...
OSCE Mission to Moldova supports prosecution service reform
Publishing date: 20 April 2011
CHISINAU, 20 April 2011 – The role of prosecutors and reform of prosecution services were discussed today at a roundtable event held by the OSCE Mission to Moldova in co-operation with the General Prosecutor’s Office...
OSCE Centre supports training seminar for regional prosecutors in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 20 April 2011
ASTANA, 20 April 2011 – A three-day OSCE-supported training for Kazakhstani prosecutors on overseeing the implementation of international agreements began today...
OSCE Mission to Skopje trains civil servants on drafting legislation
Publishing date: 20 April 2011
SKOPJE, 20 April 2011- Members of the public and state administration dealing with legislative drafting will learn to improve their skills through an OSCE-supported project launched in Skopje today...
Experts discuss ways to strengthen independence of Kyrgyz judiciary at OSCE-organized meeting
Publishing date: 20 April 2011
BISHKEK, 20 April 2011- Identifying ways to strengthen the independence of Kyrgyzstan’s judiciary is the focus of a meeting organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the Supreme Court of the Kyrgyz Republic today in Bishkek...