News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE media watchdog, Finnish OSCE Chairmanship host forum on challenges to media freedom
Publishing date: 29 February 2008
VIENNA, 29 February 2008- OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklós Haraszti, and Finnish Secretary of State Pertti Torstila, called on participating States to comply with their OSCE media commitments at a roundtable discussion today...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator offers anti-trafficking courses for Ukrainian local police
Publishing date: 26 February 2008
LUTSK, Ukraine, 26 February 2008- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine has launched a new series of regional training courses on combating human trafficking, with the first course held in north-western Ukraine today...
Border management, economic development focus of OSCE meeting in Dushanbe
Publishing date: 25 February 2008
DUSHANBE, 25 February 2008- Developing a national border strategy and border security and management projects were among some of the topics discussed at an OSCE-Tajikistan Task Force meeting that took place in Dushanbe today...
OSCE media freedom representative reviews Slovakia's draft Press Act, urges Government to implement recommendations
Publishing date: 14 February 2008
VIENNA, 14 February 2008- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, issued an analysis of Slovakia's draft Press Act today, with recommendations on bringing the draft into line with the country's media freedom commitments...
Women have a lead role in fight against human trafficking, OSCE special representative tells Women Leaders' Council
Publishing date: 14 February 2008
VIENNA, 14 February 2008- Women have a critical role to play in building the political will to address human trafficking, OSCE Special Representative Eva Biaudet said today at the first global Women Leaders' Council to combat human trafficking...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes Kyrgyzstan's media self-regulatory body, the first in Central Asia
Publishing date: 12 February 2008
VIENNA, 12 February 2008- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFOM), Miklos Haraszti, congratulated today journalists in Kyrgyzstan on the launch of an independent media self-regulatory body...
OSCE representative urges parliamentarians to step up fight against human trafficking
Publishing date: 12 February 2008
VIENNA, 12 February 2008- The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Eva Biaudet, said today that parliamentarians have a crucial role to play in the fight against trafficking...