News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Experts discuss ways to counter terrorist incitement at OSCE workshop
Publishing date: 20 October 2006
VIENNA, 20 October 2006- Strategies to counter terrorist incitement and recruitment while respecting human rights were the focus of a two-day expert workshop that ended in Vienna today...
Finnish parliamentarian Eva Biaudet appointed OSCE special representative on combating human trafficking
Publishing date: 19 October 2006
VIENNA, 19 October 2006- Eva Biaudet, a Finnish Member of Parliament, has been appointed today as the OSCE Special Representative on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings...
OSCE media freedom representative promotes media development in Central Asia
Publishing date: 19 October 2006
BISHKEK, 19 October 2006- Legal issues and other challenges related to the privatization of the media was the focus of a one-day conference today in Bishkek attended by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti...
Transport, security and environmental protection focus of OSCE-Norwegian technical workshop
Publishing date: 18 October 2006
TOENSBERG, 18 October 2006- The need for transport routes that take into account concerns about the environment and security was the focus of an OSCE-supported workshop that concluded today in Norway...
OSCE seminar in Moscow focuses on harmonization of customs and border procedures
Publishing date: 18 October 2006
MOSCOW, 18 October 2006- Border, customs, transport and trade officials from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia identified measures that would harmonize customs and border procedures during a two-day OSCE seminar that ended in Moscow today...
OSCE Chairman congratulates UN Secretary-General designate Ban Ki-moon
Publishing date: 17 October 2006
BRUSSELS, 17 October 2006- OSCE Chairman-in-Office Karel De Gucht has sent a letter to Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General designate, congratulating him on his appointment on behalf of the OSCE and its 56 participating States...
OSCE Representative urges French Senate to reject criminalization of Armenian genocide denial
Publishing date: 17 October 2006
VIENNA, 17 October 2006- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media expressed his concern about the French National Assembly's adoption in a first reading of an amendment that aims to criminalize the denial that the 1915 killings of Armenians in...