News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes highest UK court's decision backing investigative journalism
Publishing date: 16 October 2006
VIENNA, 16 October 2006- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media praised the decision of the Law Lords, Britain's highest court, to grant journalists the right to publish unproven allegations in cases of public interest, provided that...
OSCE election observation body begins assessment of presidential elections in Bulgaria
Publishing date: 16 October 2006
WARSAW, 16 October 2006- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights today began an election assessment mission for the 22 October presidential elections in Bulgaria at the invitation of the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry...
Warsaw meeting discusses OSCE/ODIHR guidelines on freedom of assembly
Publishing date: 16 October 2006
WARSAW, 16 October 2006- An OSCE-organized roundtable discussion of the guidelines on legislation regulating and affecting freedom of assembly took place in Warsaw today. "The guidelines...
OSCE Mission to Skopje organizes discussions across the country on education and decentralization
Publishing date: 14 October 2006
SKOPJE, 14 October 2006- Improving rural children's access to education, increasing parents' participation in decision-making and improving relations among stakeholders involved in education...
More co-operation needed to avoid fires in Nagorno-Karabakh region, OSCE-led expert mission finds
Publishing date: 13 October 2006
YEREVAN, 13 October 2006- An OSCE-led team of international and local experts today called for more co-operation to prevent and manage fires in and around Nagorno-Karabakh following the end of a 10-day mission to assess the environmental...
Serbian police complete OSCE/EUROPOL training on dismantling illicit drug production sites
Publishing date: 13 October 2006
BELGRADE, 13 October 2006- The first specialized training course for Serbian Interior Ministry staff on dismantling illicit drug production laboratories concluded today in Belgrade...
OSCE Chairman expresses serious regrets at the failure of Joint Control Commission meeting on Georgian-Ossetian conflict
Publishing date: 13 October 2006
BRUSSELS, 13 October 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, today said he seriously regretted that the meeting of the four-party Joint Control Commission on the resolution of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict failed...
OSCE field office in Syunik province organizes environmental action
Publishing date: 13 October 2006
YEREVAN, 13 October 2006- More than 30 schoolchildren and local volunteers helped clean up some 2 hectares of land around the Vahanavank (King Vahan's Monastery) historic monument in the Armenian province of Syunik this week...
Gap between human rights defenders and governments must be closed, top OSCE official says
Publishing date: 13 October 2006
WARSAW, 13 October 2006- The OSCE and its 56 participating States need to act to close the "widening gap between human rights defenders and governmental authorities," the Director of the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights...
OSCE Mission in Skopje supports system for transparent distribution of court cases
Publishing date: 13 October 2006
SKOPJE, 13 October 2006- A software system that makes the assignment of court cases to judges more transparent was delivered today to the Appellate Court in Skopje under a project supported by the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje...