News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Challenges and opportunities for freedom of peaceful assembly, including new technologies, focus of OSCE human rights meeting in Vienna
Publishing date: 22 November 2019
VIENNA, 22 November 2019 – How best to ensure the full enjoyment of the freedom of peaceful assembly by people in the OSCE area and beyond, including through participating States’ full implementation of existing OSCE commitments was the focus of the third Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting held under the auspices of Slovakia’s 2019 OSCE Chairmanship. The two-day meeting concluded today in Vienna...
OSCE supports Municipal Election Commissions in developing training programme for polling station staff
Publishing date: 22 November 2019
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized a training course for senior representatives from the State Election Commission and Municipal Election Commissions on how to train polling station staff on polling station procedures on 21 and 22 November 2019 in Podgorica...
Human rights and transnational threats in focus of OSCE-supported Youth Legal Forum in Nur-Sultan
Publishing date: 22 November 2019
The annual OSCE-supported International Youth Legal Forum, focusing on the link between human rights and transnational threats to security, concluded on 22 November 2019 in Nur-Sultan...
Turkmenistan representatives discuss national minorities issues on OSCE-organized study visit to Lithuania
Publishing date: 22 November 2019
The creation of a mechanism for consultations with the representatives of the national minorities was the focus of an OSCE-organized study visit, from 18 to 21 November 2019, to Lithuania for representatives of the Ombudsperson’s office, the Ministry of Education, the Institute of State, Law and Democracy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities’ office organizes Regional School on Multilingual and Multicultural Education in Osh, Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 22 November 2019
The office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities organized a Regional School on Multilingual and Multicultural Education in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, from 18 to 22 November 2019, bringing together around 90 participants from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and Tajikistan to share experiences
Rehabilitation of foreign terrorist fighters and their families in Kazakhstan focus of OSCE-supported seminar in Nur-Sultan
Publishing date: 22 November 2019
An OSCE-supported seminar on the presentation of manuals on how to work in the rehabilitation of returning foreign terrorist fighters and their families took place on 22 November 2019 in Nur-Sultan...
Legal safety of journalists must be reinforced, stresses OSCE Media Freedom Representative Désir at Permanent Council meeting in Vienna
Publishing date: 21 November 2019
VIENNA, 21 November 2019 – Not only the physical safety but also the legal safety of journalists needs to be protected, said OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir as he presented his biannual report to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna today...