News and press releases

An OSCE project to establish “mentor networks” to help women help each other to participate in political, economic and social life and achieve equality started with a training course in Belgrade on 26 and 27 February 2013...

Thirty-one journalists were awarded for their media pieces promoting the activities of women in the political, social and economic fields. The winners were announced at the 5th Na/Ne annual awards ceremony in Yerevan on 13 February 2013. The event was co-organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan, the British Council and the British Embassy in Yerevan...

TIRANA, 11 February 2013 – Ways to empower Albanian female politicians to run for leadership positions in the 2013 parliamentary elections is the main objective of a two-day event organized by the OSCE Presence in Albania and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) that started today in Tirana...

The OSCE Centre in Astana jointly with the Embassy of Norway organized a study trip to Oslo for parliamentarians and the head and members of the National Commission on Women’s Affairs and Family Demographic Policy under the President of Kazakhstan from 30 January to 1 February 2013...

The first meeting of the OSCE MenEngage Network took place in Vienna on 28 January 2013. The Network was set up by the OSCE Gender Section to bring together men in senior positions in the OSCE who will engage in promoting gender equality...

Good practices for parliamentary bodies in promoting gender equality and advancing women’s interests in national legislatures were the focus of a workshop held in Vienna by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), with the support of the Austrian Parliament and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly on 10 and 11 December 2012...

The OSCE Centre in Astana supported a roundtable meeting on sexual harassment on 7 December 2012 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...