News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Andorran Foreign Minister at OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 22 November 2012
Andorran Foreign Minister Gilbert Saboya i Sunyé addressed the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on 22 November 2012...
OSCE Centre in Astana supports discussion on countering terrorism
Publishing date: 22 November 2012
ASTANA, 22 November 2012 – An OSCE-supported one-day international conference on countering terrorism, which brought together some 50 parliamentarians, international and national experts, academics, and representatives of law enforcement agencies, was held at premises of Majilis of the Parliament of Kazakhstan in Astana today...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine supports conference on national preventive mechanisms against torture
Publishing date: 15 November 2012
The Forth East European Conference on National Preventive Mechanisms started on 15 November 2012 in Odessa with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU)...
OSCE participating States should do more to protect and facilitate peaceful assemblies, concludes ODIHR monitoring report
Publishing date: 9 November 2012
OSCE participating States should protect and facilitate peaceful assemblies, and restrictions should be proportionate and only imposed when necessary, says a report released by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Vienna on 9 November 2012...
OSCE meeting addresses challenges and good practices on freedoms of peaceful assembly and association
Publishing date: 8 November 2012
VIENNA, 8 November – Governments should welcome new technologies as an important means to facilitate, protect and promote the fundamental rights to peaceful assembly and association, civil society participants said at the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting, which opened today in Vienna...
Good practices, challenges to freedom of assembly and association highlighted at civil society forum
Publishing date: 7 November 2012
Promoting the freedom of assembly and association, as well as the challenges faced in exercising this fundamental right, were the focus of a forum for civil society representatives organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Irish OSCE Chairmanship on 7 November 2012...
OSCE helps trains medical staff of Kyrgyzstan’s colonies
Publishing date: 1 November 2012
A three-week training course for medical staff of prison colonies concluded on 1 November 2012. The course was organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the State Penitentiary Service and was hosted by the Training centre for prison staff...