News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Moldova supports youth engagement through public debates
Publishing date: 9 September 2016
On 8 September 2016, the OSCE Mission to Moldova organized the first in a series of public debates for young people aimed at encouraging the establishment of debate clubs in schools throughout Moldova. Some 50 high school students and teachers participated in or observed the debate, which took place in a school in Avdarma – a village in the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia...
OSCE training for students in Turkmenistan addresses protection of human rights during criminal proceedings and investigations
Publishing date: 8 September 2016
ASHGABAT, 8 September 2016 – International human rights standards at the stage of criminal proceedings and investigations were the focus of an OSCE-organized course for 50 students of the Institute of the Interior Ministry and the Foreign Ministry’s Institute of International Relations, which will conclude in Ashgabat tomorrow...
OSCE Office supports Armenia’s Human Rights Defender’s Office
Publishing date: 2 September 2016
Joint initiatives to promote human rights protection in Armenia were the focus of a meeting hosted by the OSCE Office in Yerevan with Armenia’s Human Rights Defender’s (Ombudsperson) Office on 31 August 2016...
Governments should utilize OSCE’s full toolbox, says PA President Muttonen at informal ministerial meeting in Potsdam
Publishing date: 1 September 2016
POTSDAM, 1 September 2016 – Speaking today at an informal meeting of OSCE Foreign Ministers in Potsdam, Germany, Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen (MP, Austria) urged intensified efforts at diplomacy and confidence-building, stressing that governments should make full use of the OSCE’s instruments to address common challenges...
OSCE supports mentoring workshop for mobile doctors in Kyrgyzstan on best practices in health care and human rights protection
Publishing date: 24 August 2016
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 24 August 2016 – A two-day workshop organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek for 16 young and recently-recruited mobile doctors from Batken, Osh, Jalalabad and Talas provinces on health care and human rights protection in detention facilities started today in Sary-Oi, Issyk-Kul region...
In Ankara, OSCE parliamentary President expresses solidarity with Turkish people following coup attempt
Publishing date: 17 August 2016
ANKARA, 17 July 2016 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen (MP, Austria), is leading a high-level delegation to Turkey following the attempted coup of 15 July. In meetings with the President, Speaker of Parliament, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and other officials, the delegation has expressed the solidarity of the OSCE PA with Turkey and its people in the aftermath of the attempted seizure of power...
OSCE/ODIHR Director Link criticizes call for reintroduction of death penalty by Tajikistan’s Prosecutor General
Publishing date: 5 August 2016
WARSAW, 6 August 2016 – Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), today criticized the call by the Prosecutor General of Tajikistan for the reintroduction of the death penalty, and expressed concern over recent discussions related to removing the bans on capital punishment in some other OSCE participating States...