News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Respecting human rights while combating transnational threats- OSCE-supported workshop held in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 30 November 2011
TASHKENT, 29 November 2011 – A three-day OSCE-supported workshop which started in Tashkent today will focus on building the capacity of the national police in advancing the implementation of human rights while addressing transnational crimes, such as trafficking and terrorism...
OSCE Chairperson says attacks on international peacekeepers are unacceptable
Publishing date: 29 November 2011
VILNIUS, 29 November 2011- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, today condemned attacks on KFOR soldiers in northern Kosovo...
OSCE supports border management workshop for border guards and customs officers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 29 November 2011
A two-and-a-half day workshop for border service and customs officials began in Merke, on Kazakhstan's southern border with Kyrgyzstan, on 28 November 2011. The OSCE Centre in Astana organized the seminar in co-operation with the EU/UNDP Border Management Programme for Central Asia, the International Organization for Migration and the border services and customs agencies of Kazakhstan...
OSCE Centre in Astana conducts anti-trafficking training seminar for judges
Publishing date: 29 November 2011
ASTANA, 29 November 2011 – A two-day OSCE-organized training seminar for judges on good legislative and judicial practices to combat trafficking in human-beings began in Astana today...
Internet freedom under threat in Central Asia, says OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 29 November 2011
DUSHANBE, 29 November 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, warned today that Internet freedom is increasingly under threat in Central Asia and called for governments in the region to promote, not block, access...
OSCE trains online journalists on both sides of Nistru/Dniestr River
Publishing date: 29 November 2011
VADUL-LUI-VODĂ, Moldova, 29 November 2011 – Journalistic and managerial skills for running sustainable Internet media are the focus of a two-day OSCE training seminar that started today in Vadul-lui-Vodă, a town on the Nistru/Dniestr River outside of Chişinău...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine trains social service providers on helping victims of human trafficking and domestic violence
Publishing date: 28 November 2011
The first of two training seminars to improve the social services provided to victims of human trafficking and domestic violence began in Kyiv on 28 November 2011 with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU).