News and press releases

ASTANA, 27 November 2014 – A training workshop on the legal aspects of managing labour migration as well as monitoring and recruitment procedures of the foreign labour force took place today in Astana...

DUSHANBE, 16 May 2014 – Twenty-six officers from Afghan and Tajik law enforcement agencies completed a training course today in Dushanbe organized by the OSCE and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on refugees and asylum seekers issues...

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) António Guterres called on OSCE participating States on 20 February 2014 to provide massive international support to share the burden of the crisis in Syria...

A project organised jointly by the OSCE, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the International Organization for Migration, to map the links between irregular migration, migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings along the East Mediterranean Migration Route, began with a seminar in Vienna on 30 and 31 October 2013.

A number of laws and policies are in place in Armenia to promote the integration of migrants into society, but more steps could be taken to make further improvements, concludes an assessment prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in co-operation with the non-governmental organization Migration Policy Group and presented in Yerevan on 23 October 2013...

SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan, 14 May 2013- An OSCE-supported regional workshop, comprised of a seminar on improving the regulation of migration policies at the local level, and a training event on best practices in the integration of migrants, started in Shymkent in south Kazakhstan today...

YEREVAN, 2 May 2013 – Some 60 young people from Armenia gathered today in Yerevan in a simulation of the OSCE core decision-making body – the Permanent Council...