News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Fostering dialogue through cross-border training for young Afghan and Turkmen diplomats at the OSCE in Vienna
Publishing date: 22 September 2016
VIENNA, 22 September 2016 – At the invitation of the German Federal Foreign Office, eleven young diplomats from Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Iran today visited the OSCE in Vienna in order to gain better knowledge and understanding of the world’s largest regional security organization and meet representatives of the German OSCE Chairmanship and of the OSCE Secretariat. Prior to their visit, the group attended a day-long OSCE workshop in Berlin. Turkmenistan is an OSCE participating State while Afghanistan is an OSCE Asian Partner for Co-operation...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30, 21 September 2016
Publishing date: 22 September 2016
The SMM recorded a higher number of ceasefire violations in Donetsk, including 126 explosions compared with 38 in the previous reporting period...
OSCE media freedom representative and ODIHR Director congratulate Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet on receiving “Alternative Nobel Prize”
Publishing date: 22 September 2016
WARSAW, 22 September 2016 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, and the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Michael Georg Link, today congratulated the daily Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet on receiving the Right Livelihood Award, more commonly known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”...
OSCE Programme Office supports international roundtable discussion in Kazakhstan on countering terrorism
Publishing date: 22 September 2016
ASTANA, 22 September 2016 – Current trends in international terrorism and ways to prevent young people from engaging in violent extremism and radicalization were among the topics of an OSCE-supported international roundtable discussion, which took place today in Astana, Kazakhstan...
OSCE organizes International Police Reform Conference in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 22 September 2016
BISHKEK, 22 September 2016 – The development of the police system of Kyrgyzstan in the context of security sector reform is being discussed at a two-day international conference, which opened today in Bishkek...
Use of digital tools by human traffickers in focus of OSCE-supported meeting for law enforcers in Ukraine
Publishing date: 22 September 2016
Some 50 police officers, investigators, prosecutors and judges from six regions of Ukraine participated in a two-day roundtable discussion on the investigation and prosecution of human trafficking crimes committed with the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine on 21-22 September 2016 in Kharkiv...
Youth from Albania and Serbia conclude OSCE-supported training course in Durrës on use of digital skills to promote OSCE values
Publishing date: 22 September 2016
A five-day training course on use of digital skills to promote OSCE values for young people from Albania and Serbia concluded on 22 September 2016 in the Albanian city of Durrës. The course was organized by the OSCE Mission to Serbia in partnership with the OSCE Presence in Albania, in co-operation with the Serbia’s Ministry of Youth and Sport, Albanian Ministry of Social Welfare and Youth and the National Youth Council of Serbia...