News and press releases

VIENNA, 17 April 2015 – In a new interactive campaign launched today, the OSCE is inviting members of the public to send in photos, videos and social media messages on how we can work together to make security a reality and promote peace through co-operation...

TIRANA, 8 April 2015 – On the occasion of International Roma Day, the OSCE Presence in Albania announced today the start of a project aimed at educating Roma and Egyptian women voters ahead of the local government elections on 21 June. More than 140 women will participate in seven training sessions across the country, which will focus on topics related to the right to vote, family-voting and vote-buying...

TIRANA, 26 March 2015 – More than 40 representatives of central and local governments, Aarhus Centres and civil society from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia discussed the challenges of public participation in trans-boundary water management and in trans-boundary Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) processes at a two-day regional roundtable organized by the OSCE, that ended today...

TIRANA, 24 March 2015- About 6,300 police officers across Albania will be trained on their role in the electoral process during a series of training courses which started today in Tirana and will run to the end of April. The training, which is organized by the OSCE Presence in Albania, in partnership with the Albanian State Police, and with the support of the Central Election Commission and the General Prosecutor’s office, comes ahead of the 21 June local elections...

Forty police officers, who completed a training programme on diversity, hate crimes and domestic violence, collected their certificates in a ceremony on 23 March 2015 in Tirana. The event, hosted by the OSCE Presence in Albania and the Dutch Embassy, was attended by the Head of the Presence, Ambassador Florian Raunig, Dutch Ambassador Dewi van de Weerd, and General Director of the Albanian Police Artan Didi...

TIRANA, 6 March 2015- On the occasion of the upcoming International Women’s Day on 8 March, the Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Florian Raunig, stressed the need for a significantly increased representation of women in the Albanian politics as key to the further development of democracy.

Representatives of the Albanian Foreign Ministry, Central Election Commission and civil society completed on 18 December 2014 a three-day training course in Tirana on short-term election observation. The course was organized by the OSCE Presence in Albania and follows the successful delivery of a similar training course in July 2014...