News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Skopje city administrators to be trained on new assessment technique, with OSCE’s help
Publishing date: 18 June 2013
SKOPJE, 18 June 2013 – Staff at Skopje’s city administration will be introduced today to a new quality measurement standard aimed at improving work processes and professional performance at a training course initiated by the Ministry of Information Society and Administration and supported by the OSCE...
Settlement colonies in Kyrgyzstan to open income-generation units with OSCE support
Publishing date: 14 June 2013
ANANYEVO, Kyrgyzstan, 14 June 2013 – A farm in a settlement colony in Kyrgyzstan was officially launched today in the Colony 44 in the village of Ananyevo in Issyk-Kul region of the country...
Head of OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina calls for permanent solution on Single Reference Number issue for newborn children
Publishing date: 14 June 2013
SARAJEVO, 14 June 2013- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Fletcher M. Burton, today welcomed that a short-term solution was found to enable a three-month BiH-born girl to be transported to a clinic in Germany for urgent medical treatment. He urged Parliamentarians to reach a compromise solution on the Single Reference Number for all new-borns in the country which would allow the children to be issued identity documents...
OSCE trains Armenian lawyers on preparing third party submissions
Publishing date: 14 June 2013
YEREVAN, 14 June 2013 – Third party submissions in constitutional and international human rights procedures, and the enforcement of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgments will be discussed at a two-day workshop organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan together with the Armenian Chamber of Advocates that started in Yerevan today...
Annual report on OSCE court monitoring presented in Montenegro
Publishing date: 12 June 2013
Several court monitoring reports were presented at a conference in Montenegro on 10 June 2013...
Ukrainian officials, civil society members to learn at OSCE events about new rules for registration of associations
Publishing date: 10 June 2013
CHERNIVTSI, Ukraine, 10 June 2013- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator and Ukraine’s State Registration Service launched today a series of six regional information seminars to familiarize public servants and third sector activists with new registration procedures for civil society organizations...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine trains judges in legal writing and time management
Publishing date: 10 June 2013
Training seminars for Ukraine’s newly appointed administrative court judges started in Kyiv on 10 June 2013 with the support of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU)...