News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Montenegro co-organizes annual discussion to mark International Human Rights Day
Publishing date: 10 December 2012
Montenegro’s participation in the United Nations Human Rights Council, the right to restitution, and human rights protection in penitentiary system were the three topics discussed at an OSCE-supported event in Podgorica to mark International Human Rights Day on 10 December 2012...
Improvements made in human rights protection, women and youth participation, but challenges remain, says Head of OSCE Mission in Kosovo
Publishing date: 10 December 2012
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 10 December 2012 – The Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Jean-Claude Schlumberger, said today that despite significant improvements in the Kosovo regulatory framework and increased outreach by the government, challenges remain in human and community rights protection, as well as in women and youth participation in decision-making processes...
ODIHR trains counter-terrorism officials in Ukraine on protecting human rights while countering terrorism
Publishing date: 7 December 2012
The importance of protecting human rights while countering terrorism was highlighted by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) at a two-and-a-half-day training course for law enforcement officials, which ended on 6 December 2012 in Kyiv...
New OSCE/ODIHR handbook on national human rights institutions and gender equality presented at Sarajevo workshop
Publishing date: 4 December 2012
A new publication to highlight the role national human rights institutions can play in protecting and promoting women’s rights and gender equality was presented at a regional expert workshop, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Sarajevo on 4 December 2012...
Students discuss international human rights protection at OSCE-supported course in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 30 November 2012
ASHGABAT, 30 November 2012 – Forty senior students of the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan attended an OSCE-supported course on the international protection of human rights that concluded in Ashgabat today...
OSCE Centre holds expert meeting on administrative justice reform in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 29 November 2012
ASTANA, 29 November 2012- An OSCE-supported expert conference on the role of administrative law and justice in human rights protection was held in Astana today...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine trains trainers on corrective work for domestic violence perpetrators
Publishing date: 23 November 2012
KYIV, 23 November 2012 – A OSCE-supported train-the-trainers seminar on corrective work with domestic violence perpetrators for senior teaching staff from the Ukrainian State Institute for Family and Youth Policy concluded in Kyiv today...