News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Presence gives 2014 Award to Albanian organizations fighting child trafficking and exploitation
Publishing date: 17 December 2014
The OSCE Presence in Albania has presented local civil society associations ARSIS and Children of the World and Albania the 2014 Presence’s Award for their contribution in assisting street children and fighting child trafficking at the ceremony in Tirana...
OSCE Mission to Serbia supports educational reform for Serbian as a non-mother tongue language
Publishing date: 17 December 2014
As part of its programme on human rights and non-discrimination, the OSCE Mission to Serbia supported the first initial meeting of teachers and experts on 16 and 17 December 2014 in Belgrade on Serbian as a non-mother tongue language...
OSCE-supported report examines freedom of peaceful assembly in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 15 December 2014
BISHKEK, 15 December 2014 – A report assessing the implementation of Kyrgyzstan’s 2012 law on peaceful assembly was presented at an OSCE-organized roundtable discussion in Bishkek today...
OSCE brings together civil society and state actors to review situation of human rights defenders in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 10 December 2014
More than 60 representatives from civil society and state institutions in Kyrgyzstan came together to discuss the situation of human rights defenders in the country at a meeting held in Bishkek on 9 and 10 December 2014.
OSCE supports Borderline Reality art exhibition on Human Rights Day to promote rehabilitation of convicted persons in Armenia
Publishing date: 10 December 2014
ARMAVIR, Armenia, 10 December 2014 – On the occasion of Human Rights Day the OSCE Office in Yerevan supported an art exhibition at the newly-opened penitentiary institution in Armavir, which highlights the need for rehabilitating and reintegrating convicted people into society...
OSCE-supported Students’ Forum marks International Human Rights Day in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 10 December 2014
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 10 December 2014 – The different aspects of human rights protection are being addressed at the eighth annual Law Students’ Forum “Protection of Human Rights in a Changing World” on the occasion of International Human Rights Day, today in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
Human Rights Day 2014: Better protection of human rights defenders needed across the OSCE region, ODIHR Director says
Publishing date: 10 December 2014
WARSAW, 10 December 2014 – On the occasion of International Human Rights Day, Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), called on all OSCE participating States to do more to protect human rights defenders in the OSCE region..