News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Anti-trafficking and non-discrimination to top agenda of Europe's largest human rights meeting
Publishing date: 26 September 2006
WARSAW, 26 September 2006- Some 900 international experts, government representatives and human rights activists will gather in Warsaw from 2 to 13 October for this year's session of the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting...
PM Office, OSCE Mission and Kosovo NGO begin drafting strategy on Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities
Publishing date: 8 September 2006
PRISHTINE/PRISTINA, 8 September 2006- The Prime Minister's Office, the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society will tomorrow host a conference to launch the development of a strategy for the integration of Roma, Ashkali and...
OSCE Mission in Kosovo helps raise knowledge on constitutional issues
Publishing date: 21 July 2006
SKOPJE, 21 July 2006- Constitutional issues are the focus of a two-day roundtable that began yesterday in Skopje. The meeting, organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, brings together experts and members of the Assembly of Kosovo...
OSCE Head of Mission urges Kosovo refugees, IDPs, to hold on to hope ahead of World Refugee Day
Publishing date: 19 June 2006
PRISTINA, 19 June 2006- The Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Werner Wnendt today urged refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) from and within Kosovo to hold on to their dreams of returning home in a statement issued ahead of...
Croatian democratic institutions made considerable progress, OSCE Mission report says
Publishing date: 13 June 2006
ZAGREB, 13 June 2006- Croatia's democratic institutions in the field of civil society, police and media have made considerable progress towards becoming self-sustainable, the OSCE Mission to Croatia says in a report that will be presented to OSCE...
OSCE Skopje Mission helps train pre-school teachers to work in multi-ethnic environment
Publishing date: 18 May 2006
SKOPJE, 18 May 2006- A series of seminars for teachers that ended today in Skopje focused on raising the standards of pre-school education and ensuring the inclusion of all ethnic groups. Twenty school teachers of different ethnic backgrounds from...
OSCE media watchdog welcomes improved climate and work in Kosovo- 'press freedom in good shape'
Publishing date: 27 April 2006
PRISTINA, 27 April 2006- Concluding a two-day visit to Kosovo, Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, said he had been impressed by the progress he witnessed in the province and the work done by media professionals...