News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Cross-border co-operation and joint action are essential in reducing disaster risk, conclude participants of OSCE disaster risk reduction training in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 7 October 2016
KAIRAKKUM, Tajikistan, 7 October 2016 – A three and a half-day training course on disaster risk reduction for central government agencies, local administrations and Aarhus Centres from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan concluded today in Kairakkum, Tajikistan...
Impunity for crimes committed against journalists in Russia must end, OSCE Representative says on tenth anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya’s death
Publishing date: 7 October 2016
VIENNA, 7 October 2016 – On the tenth anniversary of the death of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today called on the government of the Russian Federation to end impunity for crimes committed against journalists...
International election observers in Georgia to hold press conference on Sunday
Publishing date: 7 October 2016
TBILISI, 7 October 2016 – The international observers monitoring the parliamentary elections in Georgia will present their preliminary post-election statement at a news conference on Sunday, 9 October, in Tbilisi...
OSCE trains lawyers of the OSCE-supported Women’s Resource Centres in Tajikistan on protecting victims of domestic violence and human trafficking
Publishing date: 7 October 2016
DUSHANBE, 7 October 2016 – An OSCE-organized two-day training course for lawyers from OSCE-supported Women’s Resource Centres (WRCs) concluded today in Dushanbe. The course brought together some 18 participants with the aim of strengthening their knowledge of legal instruments and procedures to protect survivors of human trafficking and domestic violence and in facilitating their access to justice...
ODIHR Director Link and OSCE Chair Special Representative Erler express concern over listing of Russian organisation Memorial as a “foreign agent”
Publishing date: 7 October 2016
WARSAW/BERLIN, 7 October 2016 –Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and Gernot Erler, Special Representative of the German OSCE Chairmanship expressed their concern that the human rights group International Historical, Educational, Charitable and Human Rights Society “Memorial” was named a “foreign agent” by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation earlier this week...
OSCE Chairperson and OSCE Secretary General congratulate António Guterres on his appointment as UN Secretary-General
Publishing date: 6 October 2016
BERLIN/VIENNA, 6 October 2016- Following the UN Security Council decision to appoint António Guterres as the new UN Secretary-General, OSCE Chairperson-in Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier expressed their heartfelt congratulations and praised the choice. Steinmeier said he hoped for enormous support in the UN General Assembly, which would give Guterres a strong mandate for leadership of the United Nations...
Youth can be driver of OSCE Mediterranean Partnership, participants highlight at 2016 OSCE Mediterranean Conference
Publishing date: 6 October 2016
VIENNA, 6 October 2016 – The OSCE Mediterranean Partnership is growing and youth should be a lead actor to take dialogue and co-operation forward, participants emphasized in the 2016 OSCE Mediterranean conference, which concluded today in Vienna...