News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre organizes seminar for women entrepreneurs in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 15 October 2007
ASHGABAD, 15 October 2007- Women entrepreneurs in Turkmenistan had the opportunity to learn from their Central Asian peers through an OSCE Centre-supported seminar held over the weekend in the southeastern Mary region...
South Caucasus journalists discuss media ethics and self-regulation at OSCE conference
Publishing date: 12 October 2007
TBILISI, 12 October 2007- The challenges and prospects of media self-regulation were the focus of the Fourth South Caucasus Media Conference that ended in Tbilisi today...
OSCE media freedom representative asks Kazakhstan to withdraw Interior Ministry defamation proposals
Publishing date: 9 October 2007
VIENNA, 9 October 2007- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFOM), Miklós Haraszti, has asked the Kazakh Interior Minister to withdraw recent draft amendments to the country's defamation law...
OSCE Ukraine office holds training sessions for judges on fighting human trafficking
Publishing date: 2 October 2007
KYIV, 2 October 2007- More than 200 Ukrainian judges are learning about how to best combat human trafficking in a series of eight OSCE-organized regional training sessions, the first of which ended today...
UN and OSCE are partners in work to strengthen co-operative security, OSCE Chairman tells UN Security Council
Publishing date: 28 September 2007
NEW YORK, 28 September 2007- The OSCE is well-placed to contribute to the co-ordinated responses needed to tackle today's security challenges, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, told the UN Security Council...
Employment of minorities in public service enhances public confidence in State institutions, OSCE Mission Head says
Publishing date: 27 September 2007
ZAGREB, 27 September 2007- Minority employment in the judiciary was the focus of a meeting organized by the OSCE Mission to Croatia and the Justice Ministry today...
OSCE event in Albania encourages law enforcement co-operation in fight against trafficking and organized crime
Publishing date: 27 September 2007
TIRANA, 27 September 2007- The OSCE Spanish Chairmanship and the OSCE's Strategic Police Matters Unit (SPMU) is holding a discussion forum this week in Albania on the challenges in the fight against transnational organized crime and human trafficking...