News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission, UNHCR welcome Croatia's extension of housing care deadline
Publishing date: 1 July 2005
ZAGREB, 1 July 2005- The OSCE Mission and UNHCR Representation in Croatia welcome yesterday's decision by the Government to extend the deadline for applications for the Housing Care Programme for former holders of occupancy/tenancy rights who...
OSCE anti-terrorism unit organizes regional travel document workshop in Sofia
Publishing date: 1 July 2005
SOFIA, 1 July 2005- International standards in travel document handling and ways to improve existing practices in the region were the focus of an OSCE-organized workshop held in Sofia on 29 and 30 June...
OSCE media watchdog worried by protection of sources case in the US
Publishing date: 29 June 2005
VIENNA, 29 June 2005- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, has expressed concern over the cases of reporters Judith Miller of The New York Times and Matthew Cooper of Time Magazine who have been sentenced to imprisonment...
OSCE holds meeting to build confidence between police and people in Kyrgyzstan's south
Publishing date: 28 June 2005
JALALABAD, 28 June 2005- Building trust between law enforcement bodies and the people in southern Kyrgyzstan was the focus of a meeting today in Jalalabad, organized by the OSCE Field Office in Osh. Preventing tensions of the type which arose after...
OSCE media watchdog concerned about prison sentence for journalist in Russia
Publishing date: 23 June 2005
VIENNA, 23 June 2005- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, today expressed his concern regarding the combined five year prison sentence handed down to a Russian journalist by a Smolensk court...
OSCE Chairman says more action needed on curbing small arms and light weapons, securing ammunition stockpiles
Publishing date: 21 June 2005
VIENNA, 21 June 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, said on Tuesday that the Organization should devote more attention to curbing the spread of small arms and light weapons and securing stockpiles of...
Media freedom on the Internet in Central Asian countries threatened, says OSCE Representative
Publishing date: 20 June 2005
AMSTERDAM, 20 June 2005- Governmental over-regulation and content censorship are common in Central Asian countries and pose a serious danger to new media in the emerging internet scene, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklos Haraszti...