News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports joint Iftar (fast-breaking) dinner for different communities in Kumanovo
Publishing date: 6 July 2015
An outdoor Iftar (fast-breaking) dinner was organized in Kumanovo with the support of the OSCE Mission to Skopje on 4 July 2015, bringing together Muslim and non-Muslim believers to learn more about each other’s cultures and beliefs...
OSCE supports specialized course and manual for journalists in Ukraine on gender equality and non-discrimination
Publishing date: 3 July 2015
KYIV, 3 July 2015- A two-day workshop which presented a new course and manual on gender equality and non-discrimination for representatives of Ukraine’s media educational institutions ended today in Kyiv. The workshop was organized with the support of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU)...
Ensuring the right to freedom of religion or belief vital to ensuring security and stability, say participants at OSCE meeting
Publishing date: 2 July 2015
VIENNA, 2 July 2015 – Work by states, both in national policies and in co-operation with a range of actors at the national and international levels, including religious and belief communities, to ensure the freedom of religion or belief is vital to ensuring security and stability, participants said today at the opening of a two-day OSCE meeting in Vienna.
Dialogue, trust and security are watchwords for 2016 Germany’s OSCE Chairmanship, Foreign Minister Steinmeier tells OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 2 July 2015
VIENNA, 2 July 2015 – Germany is ready to take on the responsibility of steering the OSCE against the background of one of the most serious crises since the end of the Cold War, with a vision for its 2016 Chairmanship based on dialogue, trust and security, the country’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told the OSCE’s Permanent Council in Vienna today...
Political leadership key to implementing zero-tolerance policy towards anti-Semitism in Hungary, say OSCE officials during joint visit
Publishing date: 19 June 2015
BUDAPEST, 18 June 2015 – Political leaders have to take decisive action to counter anti-Semitism in Hungary, Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and Rabbi Andrew Baker, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Anti-Semitism, said today in Budapest...
ODIHR Director welcomes investigation of racial motive in South Carolina shootings
Publishing date: 18 June 2015
WARSAW, 18 June 2015 – Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), expressed his shock and sorrow at the shooting in a historic black church in the city of Charleston, South Carolina last night that left nine people dead, and welcomed statements by police officials there that they were investigating a possible racial motivation behind the crime...
Ways to overcome barriers to equal access for Muslim women and women of African descent the focus of OSCE/ODIHR workshop
Publishing date: 16 June 2015
Discrimination preventing Muslim women and women of African descent face from achieving equal access to education and employment was the focus of a workshop organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw on 15 and 16 June 2015...