News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Latvia’s September elections democratic and pluralistic, but significant numbers face barriers to political participation, concludes ODIHR final report
Publishing date: 20 December 2011
Latvia’s early parliamentary elections on 17 September took place in a democratic and pluralistic environment but a significant part of the population continues to face barriers to political participation, the final report released by ODIHR concludes...
ODIHR promotes strengthening independence of Ukraine’s judiciary
Publishing date: 20 December 2011
Identifying ways to strengthen the independence of Ukraine's judiciary was the focus of a two-day conference co-organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 20-21 December 2011 in Kyiv...
Region’s judicial training chiefs discuss war crimes justice programmes at OSCE/ODIHR meeting in Podgorica
Publishing date: 20 December 2011
PODGORICA, 20 December 2011 – Representatives of judicial training institutions from the region met in Podgorica today to discuss how to step up their contribution to achieving justice in war crimes cases by providing effective training to judicial staff involved in such cases...
Kyrgyz Supreme Court must act on reported fair trial violations in Askarov case, ODIHR delegation says
Publishing date: 16 December 2011
BISHKEK, 16 December 2011 – After visiting prominent human rights defender Azimjan Askarov in prison, a delegation from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today urged Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court to take fair trial violations and indications of torture into account when reviewing the case of Askarov and other defendants convicted in relation to the June 2010 violence in the south of the country...
OSCE/ODIHR to monitor parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 13 December 2011
ASTANA, 13 December 2011- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today opened an election observation mission for the 15 January early parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan...
Democratic law making in focus at OSCE workshop in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 12 December 2011
Justice Ministry officials and civil society representatives discussed the main principles of democratic law-making at a workshop organized on 10 December 2011 by ODIHR and the OSCE Centre in Bishkek in co-operation with the Justice Ministry of Kyrgyzstan...
OSCE organizes expert meeting on preventing the terrorist radicalization of women
Publishing date: 12 December 2011
VIENNA, 12 December 2011 – The dynamics behind the terrorist radicalization of women and ways to prevent it from happening was the focus of a meeting organized by the OSCE today for experts from academia, civil society, the media and OSCE participating States...