Skip navigation

0Meta Navigation

× Close search

Navigation

Home Newsroom Press releases
Newsroom

News and press releases

Subscribe to News Updates

News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.

Civil society recommendations presented to OSCE executive structures, institutions ahead of Bratislava Ministerial Council

Publishing date: 4 December 2019
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Human rights
BRATISLAVA, 4 December 2019 – On the eve of the 26th OSCE Ministerial Council, civil society representatives from throughout the OSCE area participated in the annual OSCE Parallel Civil Society Conference held in Bratislava today.

Challenges and opportunities for freedom of peaceful assembly, including new technologies, focus of OSCE human rights meeting in Vienna

Publishing date: 22 November 2019
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
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...

Effective multilateralism key means of addressing today’s challenges, say participants of OSCE meeting

Publishing date: 15 July 2019
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Human rights
VIENNA, 15 July 2019 – Multilateralism and co-operation lie at the core of the OSCE’ comprehensive concept of security, participants said today at the opening of a two-day OSCE meeting in Vienna...

Former OSCE Chair Serbia remains key partner in the region says OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Lajčák during visit to Belgrade

Publishing date: 4 June 2019
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Human rights, Good governance, Media freedom and development, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector, Rule of law
BELGRADE, 4 June 2019 – Visiting Serbia today as part of his commitment to visit all OSCE field missions, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák, together with First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Ivica Dačić and the Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Andrea Orizio, opened the High-Level Discussion on Security Sector Governance and Reform (SSG/R) in South-Eastern Europe in Belgrade...

Slovakia stands ready to help make Albania’s 2020 OSCE Chairmanship a success, says OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Lajčák in Tirana

Publishing date: 3 June 2019
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Elections, Good governance, Media freedom and development, Rule of law
TIRANA, 3 June 2019 – Visiting Albania, which will chair the OSCE in 2020, this year’s OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Slovakia’s Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák, reiterated today in Tirana Slovakia’s commitment to supporting the country in preparing its 2020 OSCE Chairmanship...

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, in address to Council of Europe, calls for defence of human rights

Publishing date: 27 February 2019
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Human rights
STRASBOURG, France, 27 February 2019 – Presenting the priorities of the 2019 Slovak OSCE Chairmanship to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg today, Chairperson-in-Office and Minister for Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia, Miroslav Lajčák called on all 47 Member States of the Council of Europe to defend institutions, rules and effective multilateralism.

OSCE receives recommendations from Parallel Civil Society Conference ahead of Ministerial Council in Milan

Publishing date: 5 December 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretary General
What we do: Human rights, Good governance, Media freedom and development, Roma and Sinti, Rule of law
Milan, 5 December 2018 – On the eve of the 25th OSCE Ministerial Council, top-level OSCE representatives attended the closing session of the OSCE Parallel Civil Society Conference that took place today. They received recommendations directed at the OSCE’s executive and political bodies, institutions and participating States.