News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Special Representative calls for strengthening co-operation between EU and OSCE in anti-trafficking action
Publishing date: 3 February 2011
BRUSSELS, 3 February 2011- The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, emphasized the need for enhanced co-operation with the European Commission to advance anti-trafficking action in a meeting with European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström in Brussels today...
OSCE Special Representative calls for better protection of trafficking victims' rights in criminal proceedings
Publishing date: 2 February 2011
ROME, 2 February 2011 – Courts should protect trafficked persons' rights and enable them to take an active role throughout criminal proceedings, said Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings today in a high-level roundtable meeting organized by the Italian National Judicial Council...
Head of OSCE Presence in Albania calls on political parties to send in nominations for election commissioners
Publishing date: 2 February 2011
TIRANA, 2 February 2011 – Ambassador Eugen Wollfarth, the Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, today urged all political parties to comply fully with the Electoral Code by sending in their respective nominations for commission members to the Central Election Commission (CEC) without delay...
OSCE Chairperson discusses 2011 priorities in Moscow, says constructive engagement of Russia essential to Organization
Publishing date: 2 February 2011
MOSCOW, 2 February 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis met with Russian high-level politicians and officials in Moscow today to outline the priorities of the Lithuanian OSCE Chairmanship and to discuss the Organization’s activities in 2011...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports gender approach to policing in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 1 February 2011
Promoting a gender-sensitive approach in Kyrgyzstan’s police system was the focus of a three-day seminar supported by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and attended by senior officials from the Interior Ministry and other police structures of Kyrgyzstan...
OSCE media representative reiterates call for end to harassment of the media in Belarus, regrets authorities’ failure to facilitate timely visit
Publishing date: 1 February 2011
VIENNA, 1 February 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, called today once again on the Belarusian government to stop harassing independent journalists and media outlets. She also said she regretted that the authorities did not make her proposed visit possible in January...
Civil society activists in Kyrgyzstan receive training in human rights monitoring
Publishing date: 1 February 2011
ODIHR and the OSCE Centre in Bishkek are holding a three-day capacity-building training course on human rights monitoring in Bishkek on 1-3 February...