News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Moldova hosts human rights discussion in Transdniestria with UN’s Hammarberg
Publishing date: 25 September 2012
On 18 September 2012 the OSCE Mission to Moldova hosted a roundtable discussion in Tiraspol with civil society and local authorities representatives on human rights issues. The event was held in co-operation with Resonance, a Bender-based non-governmental organization...
OSCE/ODIHR launches new human rights education guidelines for law enforcement officials and secondary schools
Publishing date: 24 September 2012
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented two new sets of guidelines on human rights education at the OSCE’s annual Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 24 September 2012...
No security without respect for human rights and democracy, say speakers at OSCE conference
Publishing date: 24 September 2012
WARSAW, 24 September 2012 – Governments have to respect universal values of democracy and human rights in practice for there to be any stable system of security, speakers said at the opening of this year’s OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw today...
OSCE Centre holds seminar on health-related rights of prisoners in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 21 September 2012
ASHGABAT, 21 September 2012 – Representatives of penitentiary institutions from across Turkmenistan participated in an OSCE-supported course on health-related rights of prisoners in Ashgabat today...
OSCE Centre supports publication of report on human rights in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 19 September 2012
On 19 September 2012, Ambassador Natalia Zarudna, the Head of the OSCE Centre in Astana, spoke at a presentation of the 2011 Annual Human Rights Situation Report translated and published with the support from the Centre...
OSCE Office promotes shadow reporting to protect human rights in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 14 September 2012
BAKU, 14 September 2012- Some 25 civil society activists are learning about using alternative and shadow reports in advocacy and co-operation with international human rights institutions at a three-day OSCE-supported workshop that started today. The OSCE is co-sponsoring the event with the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) and Counterpart International supported by USAID...
OSCE supports human rights monitoring in pre-trial detention facilities and penitentiaries in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 12 September 2012
A report on monitoring human rights in remand prisons and penitentiaries under Kyrgyzstan’s state penitentiary service GSIN was presented at a roundtable discussion on 12 September 2012 in Bishkek...