News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Improving transparency and democratic functioning of political parties focus of ODIHR seminar
Publishing date: 11 July 2013
Strategies to improve the internal democratic functioning of political parties were highlighted at an expert seminar organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw on 10 and 11 July 2013...
Border delimitation and demarcation topic of OSCE meeting in Central Asia
Publishing date: 11 July 2013
A two-day seminar on delimitation and demarcation in Central Asia was organized by the OSCE in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan on 4 and 5 July...
OSCE media freedom representative and Minister Ivanovski agree on improvements to draft media law
Publishing date: 10 July 2013
VIENNA, 10 July 2013 – The OSCE media freedom representative, Dunja Mijatović, today discussed the draft Law on Media and Audiovisual Services with the Minister of Information Society and Administration, Ivo Ivanovski who arrived in Vienna from Skopje today...
OSCE Centre supports discussion on water management and green economy development in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 10 July 2013
KYZYLORDA, Kazakhstan, 10 July 2013 – An international conference on best practices in integrated water resource management as part of the Kazakhstan’s national strategy on the transition to a green economy began in Kyzylorda today...
Afghan and Tajik customs officers learn about airport customs procedures in OSCE training course
Publishing date: 10 July 2013
DUSHANBE, 10 July 2013 – Fourteen senior and mid-level customs officers from Afghanistan and Tajikistan successfully completed a week-long training course on international airport customs procedures at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe today...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, on his visit to Azerbaijan, urges to re-double efforts towards peaceful resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Publishing date: 10 July 2013
BAKU, 8 July 2013 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara today discussed the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement and other OSCE-related issues with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and Chairman of the Milli Mejlis (Parliament) Ogtay Asadov...
New report sheds light on trafficking for organ removal in OSCE region
Publishing date: 9 July 2013
VIENNA, 9 July 2013 – A research paper on trafficking for the purpose of organ removal – one of the least addressed forms of trafficking in human beings – was published today by the OSCE...