News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE must focus on areas where it can add value, says Russian Foreign Ministry Human Rights Commissioner
Publishing date: 19 April 2012
VIENNA, 19 April 2012 – In its human dimension work, the OSCE must focus on areas where it can bring added value, and pay special attention to protecting rights of national minorities, freedom of movement, combating trafficking and developing single rules of election monitoring, said Ambassador Konstantin Dolgov, the Russian Foreign Ministry Commissioner on Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law in his address to the OSCE Permanent Council today...
OSCE Academy’s Director presents to Permanent Council educational, research programmes for Central Asia and Afghanistan
Publishing date: 19 April 2012
The OSCE Academy in Bishkek has since 2002 worked to promote the OSCE agenda of regional co-operation in Central Asia, said the Academy’s Director, Maxim Ryabkov, in his address to the OSCE Permanent Council on 19 April 2012...
Fight against corruption, good governance focus of high-level OSCE meeting in Dublin on Monday
Publishing date: 19 April 2012
DUBLIN, 19 April 2012 – Good governance and fighting corruption is the theme of a two-day OSCE meeting that opens in Dublin on Monday 23 April 2012...
OSCE media freedom representative warns against using security concerns as pretext for silencing dissent
Publishing date: 19 April 2012
National security concerns should not lead to online censorship, stressed Dunja Mijatović, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, on 19 April 2012 at the Stockholm Internet Forum...
OSCE/ODIHR highlights importance of codes of ethics for parliamentarians at conference in Tbilisi
Publishing date: 19 April 2012
The importance of a credible code of ethics for parliamentarians in building trust in democracy was highlighted at a conference held in Tbilisi by the Parliament of Georgia and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 19 April 2012...
OSCE Chairperson hails breakthrough in Transdniestrian settlement talks
Publishing date: 18 April 2012
DUBLIN, 18 April 2012 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore, welcomed today’s announcement of a breakthrough reached in the OSCE-led negotiations towards a Transdniestrian settlement...
Parliaments play a critical role in the eradication of modern-day slavery, says OSCE Special Representative at St. Petersburg meeting
Publishing date: 18 April 2012
ST PETERSBURG, Russia 18 April 2012 – The role of parliamentarians in combating and preventing human trafficking at the national and international level was the focus of a roundtable discussion in St. Petersburg today...