News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Seminar on human rights education to take place in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 9 February 2005
ALMATY, 9 February 2005- A seminar for school teachers on human rights education, organized by the OSCE Centre in Almaty, will be held in the city on 11 February. The seminar will be based on two Kazakh-language human rights manuals...
OSCE Croatia mission welcomes declaration on refugee return in south-eastern Europe
Publishing date: 1 February 2005
ZAGREB, 1 February 2005- The OSCE Mission to Croatia has welcomed the declaration on refugee return in south-eastern Europe by 2006, signed yesterday in Sarajevo by ministers responsible for refugee issues from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia...
OSCE Belgrade mission hosts regional roundtable on conducting local war crimes trials
Publishing date: 29 November 2004
PALIC, 29 November 2004- Judicial officials from Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina are focusing on regional co-operation in the building of local capacities to conduct war crimes trials at a two-day meeting that started today...
OSCE Croatia mission calls for more profound debate on measures to prevent hate speech and assess past ideologies
Publishing date: 21 November 2004
ZAGREB, 22 November 2004- Important steps made toward the reconciliation and normalisation of relations within south-east Europe, such as the Croatian Prime Minister's recent visit to Belgrade, should not be set back by isolated incidents, said OSCE's...
OSCE Magazine features police reform in Kyrgyzstan, interview with U.S. Ambassador
Publishing date: 28 October 2004
VIENNA, 28 October 2004- Kyrgyzstan's ground-breaking efforts to modernize its culture of policing, U.S. views on the future of the OSCE and on its role in observing next week's U.S. presidential election, combating the new "cyber-hate", and...
OSCE Croatia mission condemns bomb attack on party office in Vukovar, warns against rash reactions
Publishing date: 22 October 2004
ZAGREB, 22 October 2004- Head of the OSCE Mission to Croatia, Peter Semneby, today condemned a recent bomb attack on an office of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) in Vukovar. The incident occurred on Wednesday in Vukovar's Borovo Naselje district...
OSCE Croatia Mission calls for further training on war crimes trials, better judicial co-operation between states
Publishing date: 20 August 2004
ZAGREB, 20 August 2004- The decision by the Supreme Court of Croatia to annul the first instance verdict in the so-called Lora war crimes case and return the case for retrial indicates that additional measures are needed to ensure that all parts...