News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Moldova-supported play raises awareness of online child sexual exploitation
Publishing date: 12 July 2017
The OSCE Mission to Moldova is supporting the production of a social theatre play that aims to raise awareness of the increasing risk of online child sexual exploitation. The opening performances of the play, produced by the Art Centre Coliseum, took place on 11 and 12 July 2017 in Chisinau. More than 120 adults and young people aged over 16 years attended...
OSCE-supported photo exhibition promoting building of bridges between youth in the Western Balkans opened in Podgorica
Publishing date: 10 July 2017
Six young photographers from participating members of the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO), presented their work at the exhibition “View on My Neighbour” which was launched on 28 June 2017 in Podgorica...
OSCE-supported Central Asian Youth Network opens to support the “Energy of Youth”
Publishing date: 28 June 2017
ASTANA, 28 June 2017 – The eleventh annual OSCE Central Asian Youth Network (CAYN) seminar began today on the premises of ForteBank’s head office in Astana...
OSCE Summer School on security issues for Kyrgyzstan’s civil servants held in Issyk Kul
Publishing date: 27 June 2017
More than 40 representatives of Kyrgyzstan’s parliament – the Jogorku Kenesh, the government, as well as independent experts took part in the OSCE Summer School on “National interests of the Kyrgyz Republic in the modern geopolitical situation” on 21-24 June 2017. The Summer School, at Issyk Kul, northern Kyrgyzstan, brought together officials who in their daily work are involved in developing the country’s internal and external policies as part of the National Sustainable Strategy to 2040 and the national high-tech project Taza Koom.The Project provides for better public services, business conditions and transparency in the public administration system...
OSCE Mission to Moldova continues to equip young people from both banks with essential debating skills
Publishing date: 21 June 2017
A training event held in Vadul-lui-Vodă by the OSCE Mission to Moldova from 16 to 18 June 2017 has equipped some 40 high school students and their teachers with essential debating techniques...
OSCE Presence in Albania organizes exhibition showing youth’s artwork on preventing violent extremism and dealing with the past
Publishing date: 6 June 2017
An art exhibition supported by the OSCE Presence in Albania is on show at the Fine Arts Gallery (FAB) in Tirana from 5 June 2017 to 12 June 2017 featuring the best entries submitted to the OSCE Presence by students of the Tirana University Faculty of Fine Arts on the themes of ‘Radicalization’ and ‘Dealing with the past’...
OSCE 2017 Youth Conference participants propose recommendations for mainstreaming youth issues into the security agenda
Publishing date: 29 May 2017
MOLLINA, Spain, 29 May 2017 – Ten recommendations for mainstreaming the youth agenda into responses to security challenges was proposed by more than 70 young people between the ages of 18 and 29 from OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation at the end of the two-day OSCE 2017 Youth Conference on 26 May 2017 in Spain's Málaga province...