News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Hungary urged to refrain from policies and practices that promote intolerance and hatred
Publishing date: 21 December 2015
GENEVA/BRUSSELS/WARSAW, 18 December 2015 – The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the Council of Europe (CoE) and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) have urged Hungary to refrain from policies and practices that promote intolerance, fear and fuel xenophobia against refugees and migrants...
OSCE Office in Tajikistan supports training course for women’s penitentiary staff on international standards for treatment of women prisoners
Publishing date: 21 December 2015
Staff members of the women’s penitentiary in the town of Nurek attended a training course co-organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan on 15-16 December 2015 on practical aspects of the UN Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners, also known as the Bangkok Rules...
States must work to guarantee the human rights of migrants, including in responses to current crisis, says OSCE/ODIHR Director Link
Publishing date: 18 December 2015
WARSAW, 18 December 2015 – States have an obligation to guarantee the human rights of migrants, including in their responses to the current refugee crisis in Europe, Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), stressed in a statement today, on International Migrants Day...
OSCE workshop focuses on income-generating activities to promote social rehabilitation of prisoners in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 18 December 2015
DUSHANBE, 18 December 2015 – A week-long workshop co-organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan and focusing on the re-socialization of prisoners through income-generating activities concluded today at the OSCE Office’s premises in Dushanbe...
Law students and paralegals raise awareness of legal aid following training event supported by OSCE Mission to Moldova
Publishing date: 17 December 2015
Sixteen representatives of various local institutions working with children attended an OSCE-supported public lecture on the observance of children’s rights held on 16 December 2015 in the village of Gaidar in Gagauzia. The lecture followed a training event organized by the OSCE Mission to Moldova to prepare law students and paralegals to organize public lectures on accessing legal aid...
OSCE Office in Tajikistan training course highlights need for respecting human rights of detained persons
Publishing date: 17 December 2015
DUSHANBE, 17 December 2015 – The OSCE Office in Tajikistan, with the support of the Swiss Co-operation Office, today concluded a three-day training course on the human rights of persons in police custody and the independent monitoring of police detention facilities...
OSCE PA human rights Chair expresses concern about law in Russia on international rights rulings
Publishing date: 17 December 2015
COPENHAGEN, 17 December 2015 – The Chairperson of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions Committee, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), today expressed concern about new legislation in Russia that allows the country’s Constitutional Court to decide on whether to implement rulings of international human rights courts, including the European Court of Human Rights...