News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Office supports assessment of ten years of human rights education in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 9 December 2010
DUSHANBE, 10 December 2010- Review of a decade of human rights education in Tajikistan was the focus of an OSCE-supported conference today...
OSCE Presence in Albania marks International Human Rights Day
Publishing date: 9 December 2010
TIRANA, 10 December 2010- The OSCE Presence marked today the International Human Rights Day in an event, which brought together high Albanian officials, key actors in the field of human rights, representatives of civil society, media and the diplomatic corps...
Judges from ICTY, Bosnia and Herzegovina discuss handling war crimes cases under OSCE/ODIHR-led project
Publishing date: 9 December 2010
SARAJEVO, 10 December 2010- Judges from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) today discussed experiences in adjudicating war crimes cases with peers from Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of the regional War Crimes Justice Project led by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)...
OSCE-supported meeting in Central Asia focuses on countering incitement to terrorism
Publishing date: 8 December 2010
TASHKENT, 9 December 2010- Counter-terrorism experts from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are discussing how to best counter incitement to terrorism and violent extremism at an OSCE-supported regional seminar that began in Tashkent today...
OSCE Special Representative calls for recognition of trafficking in human beings as massive-scale problem in new report
Publishing date: 8 December 2010
VIENNA, 9 December- The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, called on countries to change their perception considering human trafficking as a marginal phenomenon and instead encouraged them to recognize it as a massive-scale modern-day slavery in a speech today to the OSCE Permanent Council...
OSCE Mission and Union of Municipalities of Montenegro award innovative local governments
Publishing date: 8 December 2010
PODGORICA, 9 December 2010- Local governments using innovative and successful practices will be awarded at a ceremony on Friday that is part of the OSCE-supported Best Practices Programme...
OSCE and UN OHCHR in Kosovo mark International Human Rights Day
Publishing date: 8 December 2010
PRISHTINE/PRISTINA, 9 December 2010- On the occasion of the International Human Rights Day, Ambassador Werner Almhofer, the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, and Paul Miller, the Head of the Office in Kosovo for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN OHCHR) said the following: