News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine trains specialists dealing with domestic violence perpetrators
Publishing date: 29 March 2010
KYIV, 29 March 2010- The first of 12 training seminars for psychologists and social workers engaged in corrective work with domestic violence perpetrators started in Kyiv today...
OSCE Centre in Astana launches series of seminars on international standards and practices for combating torture
Publishing date: 29 March 2010
KARAGANDA, Kazakhstan, 29 March 2010- A seminar supported by the OSCE Centre aimed at raising law-enforcement bodies' awareness of international standards regarding torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment opened today...
OSCE supports travel document security in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 26 March 2010
TURKMENABAT, Turkmenistan, 26 March 2010- An OSCE-sponsored one-week training course on increasing operational awareness to detect forged documents concluded in Turkmenabat today...
Chairmanship, Nagorno-Karabakh and Ukraine focus of OSCE Magazine
Publishing date: 26 March 2010
VIENNA, 26 March 2010- The latest OSCE Magazine, now available in print and online, highlights the priorities of the 2010 Kazakh OSCE Chairmanship, its first activities and preparations towards the goal of holding a summit later this year...
Press release issued by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
Publishing date: 25 March 2010
VIENNA, 25 March2010- The following is a press release issued by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. The views expressed in this press release do not necessarily reflect those of the OSCE Chairmanship, nor of all OSCE participating States...
OSCE Mission to Serbia hosts first e-learning conference for Serbian police
Publishing date: 23 March 2010
BELGRADE, 23 March 2010- An OSCE-supported conference on e-learning for police training and education experts, the first event of its kind organized in Serbia, took place in Belgrade today...
Fight against cyber hate must be stepped up without infringing on free speech, director of OSCE rights body says
Publishing date: 22 March 2010
WARSAW, 22 March 2010- More efforts are needed to combat crimes motivated by hate on the Internet, but care must be taken not to infringe on the freedom of expression, said Ambassador Janez Lenarcic, the director of the OSCE ODIHR today...