News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Moldova supports discussion on Gagauz minority’s language rights
Publishing date: 19 March 2012
A set of recommendations on how to ensure the language rights of the Gagauz minority of Moldova was presented on 29 March 2012 at an OSCE-hosted roundtable meeting in Chisinau...
President Efthymiou calls for halting of death penalty in Belarus
Publishing date: 16 March 2012
COPENHAGEN, 16 March 2012 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Petros Efthymiou called today for authorities in Minsk to halt its use of the death penalty after reports that President Alexander Lukashenko has decided to go forward with the use of the death penalty in the cases of two men convicted for the April 2011 Minsk metro bombing...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan promotes development of entrepreneurship
Publishing date: 16 March 2012
TASHKENT, 16 March 2012 – Modernization of economic laws to deepen free market reforms and economic liberalization was discussed today in Tashkent at an OSCE-supported international roundtable meeting in the Uzbek Parliament...
OSCE helps Chişinău and Tiraspol remove and store radioactive waste
Publishing date: 16 March 2012
The OSCE Mission supported the removal of radioactive industrial waste from an enterprise based in Rybnitsa on the left bank of Dniestr/Nistru to a safe storage facility outside Chişinău on 15 March 2012...
OSCE trains Turkmenistan police trainers on the protection of human rights in countering terrorism
Publishing date: 15 March 2012
Police trainers in Ashgabat completed a three-day course on 15 March organized by the OSCE to help train future police officers in the protection of human rights while countering terrorism...
OSCE media representative welcomes release of jailed Kazakhstani editor
Publishing date: 15 March 2012
VIENNA, 15 March 2011- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, welcomed today the release from custody of Igor Vinyavsky, the Chief Editor of Kazakhstan’s Vzglyad newspaper...
OSCE to support Armenia’s Ombudsman’s Office ahead of elections
Publishing date: 15 March 2012
The Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, Ambassador Andrey Sorokin, and Armenia’s Human Rights Defender Karen Andreasyan, launched today a European Union-funded project to enhance the capacities of the Human Rights Defender’s Office (HRDO) in advance of the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections in 2012 and 2013...