News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Local authorities, Aarhus Centre representatives from South-Eastern Europe discuss disaster risk reduction at OSCE-supported meeting in Sarajevo
Publishing date: 23 September 2016
SARAJEVO, 23 September 2016 – A two-day regional disaster risk reduction meeting, organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities and hosted by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), concluded today in Sarajevo...
Strengthening OSCE capacities in civilian crisis management discussed at high-level side event at UN General Assembly
Publishing date: 23 September 2016
NEW YORK, 23 September 2016 –“We are committed to the OSCE’s inclusive, civilian and comprehensive approach covering the entire conflict cycle: from early warning and prevention through crisis management to post-conflict peacebuilding,” OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier stressed at a high-level event on “The Force of Civilian Crisis Management – Strengthening the Capacities of the OSCE as a Chapter VIII Organization” that took place on the margins of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on 22 September 2016...
OSCE trains facilitators of the Women’s Resource Centers network in Tajikistan on counteracting human trafficking
Publishing date: 23 September 2016
DUSHANBE, 23 September 2016 – An OSCE-organized two-day training course on counteracting trafficking in human beings for facilitators from Women’s Resource Centres (WRCs) concluded today in Dushanbe...
OSCE Programme Office in Astana promotes participation of young diplomats in transboundary water management
Publishing date: 23 September 2016
An OSCE-supported training seminar for some 20 young diplomats from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on the principles of water governance and challenges and solutions related to climate change concluded on 23 September 2016 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
OSCE Mission supports safety of journalists in Kosovo
Publishing date: 23 September 2016
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 23 September 2016 – The outgoing Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Jean-Claude Schlumberger, hosted today the chairpersons of the Association of Journalists of Kosovo, Shkëlqim Hysenaj, and of the Journalists’ Association of Serbia registered in Kosovo, Budimir Ničić, to donate 50 sets of vests and jackets bearing the word ‘PRESS’...
OSCE PA’s Skopje Autumn Meeting to explore ways of strengthening good governance and confidence-building measures
Publishing date: 23 September 2016
COPENHAGEN, 23 September 2016 – In one week, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 15th Autumn Meeting will open in Skopje with addresses by host officials including Speaker of Parliament Trajko Veljanoski and Vice-President Renata Deskoska. The opening session will also feature remarks by OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen (MP, Austria) and a special address by Mevlut Cavusoglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, followed by a debate...
OSCE Centre supports modernization of journalism education in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 23 September 2016
On 23 September 2016, the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat organized a seminar on innovative methods of teaching journalism for 15 instructors from the International University for Humanities and Development, Magtymguly Turkmen State University, Foreign Ministry’s Institute of International Relations and the National Institute of Sports and Tourism of the State Committee for Tourism and Sports of Turkmenistan...