News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Project Co-ordinator supports seminars on civil society registration procedures
Publishing date: 27 November 2012
The first of five seminars on new registration procedures for civil society organizations started in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on 27 November 2012 with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine...
ODIHR highlights role of parliamentary oversight in lawmaking at Belgrade workshop
Publishing date: 20 November 2012
The role of the parliament in better regulating the lawmaking process was the focus of a workshop in Belgrade on 19 and 20 November 2012, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Constitution and Legislative Issues Committee of the National Assembly of Serbia...
OSCE Mission in Kosovo supports independent institutions in presenting their work to the public
Publishing date: 14 November 2012
A series of four debates on the role of independent institutions in holding government accountable organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo for Prishtinë/Priština University students and representatives of independent institutions concluded on 13 November 2012...
Good practices, challenges to freedom of assembly and association highlighted at civil society forum
Publishing date: 7 November 2012
Promoting the freedom of assembly and association, as well as the challenges faced in exercising this fundamental right, were the focus of a forum for civil society representatives organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Irish OSCE Chairmanship on 7 November 2012...
OSCE Mission welcomes agreement on greater communication and co-ordination between parliaments in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 27 September 2012
SARAJEVO, 27 September 2012 – The OSCE Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina today welcomed efforts to improve inter-parliamentary co-operation demonstrated at a three-day seminar in Jahorina with secretaries of working bodies from Bosnia and Herzegovina’s four parliaments...
Freedom of information enhances government transparency, say participants at OSCE human rights conference
Publishing date: 25 September 2012
Participants at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw highlighted measures to promote free access to information held by governments, as well as the importance of providing legal protection to individuals who expose wrongdoing within organizations – so-called whistleblowers...
Head of OSCE Presence welcomes restriction of MPs’ and judges’ immunities in Albania
Publishing date: 19 September 2012
TIRANA, 18 September 2012- The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Eugen Wollfarth, welcomed today the approval of amendments to the Constitution by the Albanian Assembly, restricting the general immunity from criminal prosecution of Members of Parliament, judges and other high-level officials...