News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE organizes workshop on public-private partnerships to enhance tourism security
Publishing date: 8 September 2011
VIENNA, 8 September 2011 – Participants of a two-day workshop organized by the OSCE that started in Vienna today will discuss tourism security within the framework of public-private partnerships...
Statement of the UN, OSCE and EU Special Envoys on the situation in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 7 September 2011
BISHKEK, 7 September 2011- The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Central Asia Miroslav Jenča, the OSCE Chairperson’s Special Envoy for Kyrgyzstan Adam Kobieracki and EU Special Representative for Central Asia Pierre Morel visited Kyrgyzstan today...
OSCE holds Kyiv seminar on seizing and recovering illegal proceeds of drugs and crime
Publishing date: 6 September 2011
KYIV, 6 September 2011- The OSCE Strategic Police Matters Unit in co-operation with Ukraine’s State Financial Monitoring Service launched an anti-crime profits-recovery seminar in Kyiv today...
15th IPRM meeting takes place in Dvani
Publishing date: 2 September 2011
DVANI, 2 September 2011- The 15th meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) took place in Dvani today. The meeting was co-facilitated by the European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) and the OSCE...
ODIHR hosts seminar on increasing the accuracy of voter registers
Publishing date: 31 August 2011
Harmonizing population and voter-registration systems in OSCE participating States, including efficient data-sharing mechanisms in compiling accurate voter lists, is being discussed at a seminar organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw...
OSCE Special Representative highlights role of international justice in combating trafficking
Publishing date: 30 August 2011
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, spoke at the European Forum Alpbach’s Political Symposium 2011 entitled Justice – Responsibility for the Future on 29 August...
OSCE media freedom representative urges Montenegrin authorities to investigate attacks against media
Publishing date: 29 August 2011
VIENNA, 29 August 20110 – Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today expressed concern at a new arson attack against a vehicle owned by the Podgorica-based Vijesti newspaper...