News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Presence, USAID publish book to assist implementation of domestic violence law
Publishing date: 31 July 2008
TIRANA, 31 July 2008- The OSCE Presence in Albania and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) published this week a judicial manual that will help courts to implement the country's law on domestic violence...
OSCE Office supports Tajikistan's efforts to improve Gender Equality Law
Publishing date: 29 July 2008
DUSHANBE, 29 July 2008- How to integrate a gender perspective in Tajikistan's national policies as well improve Tajikistan's Gender Equality Law and ensure that it is implemented correctly was the focus of the roundtable discussion held in Dushanbe...
OSCE press freedom office trains media professionals to foster ethical standards and boost self-regulation
Publishing date: 29 July 2008
ODESA, Ukraine, 29 July 2008- Promoting media self-regulation as a credible mechanism for upholding journalistic ethics and professionalism is the aim of a two-day OSCE training course that started in Odesa today...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator trains Ukrainian regional authorities to address trafficking in human beings
Publishing date: 22 July 2008
LUHANSK, Ukraine, 22 July 2008- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator launched today a series of ten regional training sessions, to take place across Ukraine, on how to address the problem of trafficking in human beings...
OSCE Office supports summer school to teach Central Asian youth about dangers of human trafficking
Publishing date: 22 July 2008
DUSHANBE, 22 July 2008- A summer school to teach young people from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan about the dangers of human trafficking started today in Kairakum, northern Tajikistan...
OSCE hosts expert meeting on protecting critical energy infrastructure from terrorist attack
Publishing date: 17 July 2008
VIENNA, 17 July 2008- Protecting critical energy infrastructure from terrorist attack is the focus of an OSCE meeting that started in Vienna today...
OSCE media freedom watchdog calls Baku trial 'fake', aimed to discredit opposition journalist and protect his real attackers
Publishing date: 17 July 2008
VIENNA, 17 July 2008- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, condemned today the trial against Sergey Strekalin, who was sentenced to one and a half years in prison for his self-confessed stabbing of journalist Agil Khalil...