News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Using technology to combat trafficking in human beings: OSCE Alliance against Trafficking conference explores how to turn a liability into an asset
Publishing date: 9 April 2019
VIENNA, 10 April 2019 – How technology can be developed, harmonized and deployed to help combat all forms of human trafficking was the focus of the two-day 2019 OSCE Alliance against Trafficking in Persons Conference, which concluded in Vienna yesterday. More than 400 practitioners from across the OSCE’s 57 participating States and the Partners for Co-operation took part...
Best practice examples and perspectives on Security sector governance and reform in OSCE context explored at Vienna meeting
Publishing date: 20 March 2019
VIENNA, 20 March 2019 – Best practice examples of and perspectives on Security sector governance and reform (SSG/R)- a priority theme for both Slovakia’s 2019 OSCE Chairmanship and the Swiss Chairmanship of the FSC – was discussed at today’s joint meeting of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC) and the Permanent Council in Vienna...
New OSCE-led survey reveals violence against women in South-Eastern and Eastern Europe
Publishing date: 6 March 2019
BRUSSELS, 6 March 2019 – OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger launched today in Brussels a report that gives a detailed picture of the physical, sexual and psychological violence many women and girls have had to endure in South-Eastern and Eastern Europe in the last decades.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Lajčák stresses crucial role of parliamentarians at Winter Meeting of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
Publishing date: 21 February 2019
VIENNA, 21 February 2019 – At today’s opening of the 18th Winter Meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Chairperson-in-Office and Minister for Foreign and European Affairs, Miroslav Lajčák acknowledged the crucial role of parliamentarians in ensuring that the OSCE’s work stays focused on people...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Secretary General welcome ratification of the Prespa Agreement
Publishing date: 25 January 2019
DAVOS, Switzerland, 25 January 2019 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Slovakia’s Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčák and OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger today welcomed the ratification of the Prespa Agreement by the Hellenic Parliament and commended the governments in Athens and Skopje for their commitment to pursuing peace and stability in the region.
Statement regarding the interview of OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger published in Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on 24 December 2018
Publishing date: 26 December 2018
Following the publication, on 24 December 2018, of the interview conducted by the German newspaper Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung with OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger...
Strengthening OSCE-EU co-operation discussed at first annual high-level meeting held in Brussels
Publishing date: 13 December 2018
Improving institutional interaction and furthering co-operation between the OSCE and the EU in areas of common interest across all three OSCE security dimensions – politico-military, economic and environmental and human – was the focus of the first-ever EU–OSCE annual high-level meeting, held on 12 December in Brussels.