News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Skopje supports innovative Internet database bringing greater transparency to work of judiciary
Publishing date: 15 September 2005
SKOPJE, 15 September 2005- The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje today launched its support for a local initiative aimed at ensuring unprecedented public access to information about the country's judiciary and its work.
OSCE-chaired meeting sets goals for rehabilitation projects in the Zone of the Georgian-Ossetian Conflict
Publishing date: 15 September 2005
TBILISI, 15 September 2005- Setting targets ahead of winter for several infrastructure projects, was the focus of an OSCE-chaired meeting today, on the EC-funded 2.5 million Euro rehabilitation programme for the Zone of Conflict.
OSCE/ODIHR hosts Europe's largest human rights event for the tenth time in Warsaw
Publishing date: 15 September 2005
WARSAW, 15 September 2005- Europe's largest human rights and democracy review conference will be opened for the tenth time next week. Up to 1,000 international experts, government representatives and human rights activists will gather in Warsaw...
OSCE Election Support Team to Afghanistan urges participants to "ensure successful and democratic elections"
Publishing date: 15 September 2005
KABUL, 15 September 2005- The Head of the OSCE Election Support Team to Afghanistan called today on all participants in the 18 September legislative polls to play their part in ensuring the elections are successful and democratic. "These elections are...
OSCE States hold high-level consultations on reform of the Organization
Publishing date: 13 September 2005
VIENNA, 13 September 2005- A two-day, high-level meeting of the OSCE participating States has been considering wide-ranging proposals for the reform of the 55-nation body. These consultations continued a process...
OSCE Mission supports public discussion in Skopje on judiciary reform
Publishing date: 13 September 2005
SKOPJE, 13 September 2005- More than 50 representatives from national judicial institutions, as well as local and international organizations working on judicial reform, participated in a discussion yesterday in Skopje on reforming the judiciary.
OSCE Mission holds human rights training for Georgian law enforcement officials
Publishing date: 12 September 2005
TBILISI, 12 September 2005- Twenty law enforcement officials in Samtskhe-Javakheti started a three-day OSCE course today on international standards for human rights protection, including the rights of ethnic minorities. Organized by the Mission...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office offers expertise to partner states at Mediterranean Seminar
Publishing date: 8 September 2005
RABAT, Morocco, 8 September 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, expressed strong support for the OSCE's activities with adjacent regions in his keynote address at the 11th OSCE Mediterranean Partners Seminar...
Office of OSCE media freedom representative trains journalists and press officers in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 8 September 2005
SARYOY, KYRGYZSTAN, 8 September 2005- Strengthening relations between State authorities and the media and increasing the access of civil society to official information was the aim of a training course organized in Kyrgyzstan by...
OSCE/ODIHR opens Election Observation Mission in Baku
Publishing date: 8 September 2005
BAKU, 8 September 2005- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has deployed an Election Observation Mission to observe the 6 November parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan. The mission includes 43 election experts...