News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Prominent women from Belgrade and Prishtinë/Priština hold fourth meeting
Publishing date: 18 December 2014
Fourteen prominent women representing parliaments, academia, civil society and media from Belgrade and Prishtinë/Priština gathered for the first time in Belgrade on 15 and 16 December 2014 as part of the so-called “Budva Process,” aimed at enabling these women to engage in a direct dialogue...
More efforts needed to address gender issues in conflict situations in Ukraine, say participants of OSCE-supported conference
Publishing date: 17 December 2014
More work is needed at the regional and local levels to address the needs and concerns of women and children in conflict and post-conflict situations, said participants at the end of a three-day conference in Kyiv on 12 December 2014 focusing on Ukraine’s gender policy in the context of European integration and international commitments...
OSCE proves its value and ability as a forum for dialogue, says OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Burkhalter as Basel Ministerial Council ends
Publishing date: 5 December 2014
BASEL, Switzerland, 5 December 2014 – The OSCE proved its value and ability as a forum for dialogue while its key principles were defended, said OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter as the 21st Ministerial Council concluded in Basel today. Burkhalter welcomed decisions on Germany and Austria assuming the OSCE Chairmanships respectively in 2016 and 2017, and lauded decisions to further enhance the fight against terrorism and boost States’ preparedness against the threat of natural disasters...
OSCE Mission concludes training for responders to domestic violence in Kosovo
Publishing date: 5 December 2014
The last in a series of five workshops on standard operating procedures for protecting people from domestic violence concluded in Prishtinë/Priština on 5 December 2014. The workshops, organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and the Kosovo Agency for Gender Equality, have trained a total of 200 police officers, social workers, victims’ advocates, doctors, shelters’ staff, teachers, judges, and prosecutors...
OSCE Mission of Montenegro, Human and Minority Rights Ministry, Podgorica authorities sign agreement on promoting gender equality
Publishing date: 2 December 2014
The Head of OSCE Mission to Montenegro Ambassador, Janina Hrebickova; Minister for Human and Minority Rights, Suad Numanovic; Mayor of Capital City of Podgorica Slavoljub Stijepovic, and the President of the local parliament Djordje Suhih signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together on promoting gender equality on 28 November 2014...
OSCE encourages development of partnership model to prevent domestic violence in Armenia
Publishing date: 2 December 2014
YEREVAN, 2 December 2014 – The Social Justice NGO with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan presented today the results and key findings of a project on developing a partnership model for domestic violence prevention by strengthening police units in Armenia...
Strengthening capacities of Montenegro’s Parliamentary Committee for Gender Equality in focus at OSCE-supported sessions
Publishing date: 1 December 2014
With the goal of strengthening the capacities of the Parliamentary Committee for Gender Equality and their oversight role, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro supported two thematic sessions of the Committee that took place on 21 and 24 November 2014 in Podgorica...