News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE human rights chief dismayed at continued practice of detention without trial at Guantánamo
Publishing date: 10 January 2012
WARSAW, 10 January 2012 – On the eve of tomorrow’s tenth anniversary of the transfer of the first detainees to the United States naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), expressed dismay today at the continued practice of indefinite detention without charge or trial of terrorism suspects...
Head of OSCE Presence in Albania welcomes election of People’s Advocate
Publishing date: 22 December 2011
TIRANA, 22 December 2011- The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Eugen Wollfarth, welcomed today the election of the new People’s Advocate (Ombudsman) by the Albanian parliament...
OSCE holds training course on legislative drafting in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 22 December 2011
ASHGABAT, 23 December 2011 – Legal experts from the Justice Ministry, the Institute of State and Law and the National Institute of Democracy and Human Rights (NIDHR) under the President of Turkmenistan took part in an OSCE-supported seminar on legislative drafting which concluded in Ashgabat today...
Sharing experiences with the Baltic states to reform the Moldovan Prosecution Service
Publishing date: 22 December 2011
The Moldovan prosecution service is undergoing reform to strengthen its independence and effectiveness. On 16 December 2011 a group of experts from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania shared their experiences with their counterparts at a conference in Chişinău as part of a joint project by the OSCE Mission to Moldova and the Prosecutor General’s Office on support for prosecution service reform and capacity building based on the experience of the Baltic States...
ODIHR promotes strengthening independence of Ukraine’s judiciary
Publishing date: 20 December 2011
Identifying ways to strengthen the independence of Ukraine's judiciary was the focus of a two-day conference co-organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 20-21 December 2011 in Kyiv...
Region’s judicial training chiefs discuss war crimes justice programmes at OSCE/ODIHR meeting in Podgorica
Publishing date: 20 December 2011
PODGORICA, 20 December 2011 – Representatives of judicial training institutions from the region met in Podgorica today to discuss how to step up their contribution to achieving justice in war crimes cases by providing effective training to judicial staff involved in such cases...
OSCE Centre supports independent monitoring of freedom of peaceful assembly in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 19 December 2011
BISHKEK, 19 December 2011 – Better implementation of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly in Kyrgyzstan was the focus of an OSCE-supported public discussion that took place in Bishkek today among national authorities, international and national experts, as well as civil society and international organizations representatives...