News and press releases

The 2015 Dialogue Academy for young women, organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and the OSCE Mission to Serbia has been postponed to this autumn...

Transparency and public participation in the law-making process was the focus of a workshop in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), in co-operation with Armenia’s Ministry of Justice and the OSCE Office in Yerevan, on 14 and 15 July 2015.

Measures to make political parties in Ukraine and in the wider OSCE region more transparent and accountable were the focus of an expert workshop jointly organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the partners. They included the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), the Ukrainian civil society organizations Agency for Legislative Initiatives (ALI) as well as the Civil Network “OPORA”. The event was hosted by the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv,on 14 and 15 July 2015.

SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan,10 July 2015 – An OSCE-supported conference on the next steps in the local self-governance reform took placed today in Shymkent, south Kazakhstan...

KYIV, 9 July 2015 – The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) facilitated today the launch of the Parliament-Civil Society Platform – a forum for an inclusive national dialogue, public debate, and dissemination of information on Ukraine’s reform agenda...

HELSINKI, 7 July 2015 – Parliamentary debate on political affairs, economic and environmental issues and human rights concerns is well under way at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Annual Session in Helsinki...

A series of lectures, familiarization visits and expert meetings on various issues of democracy were held on 29 June to 4 July 2015 for 20 high school students from across Armenia as part of the Summer School on Democracy organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan...