News and press releases

Some 50 representatives of state institutions, civil society, and the international community gathered for a public debate, organized by the OSCE Mission to Skopje and the Labour and Social Policy Ministry, on the new draft law on prevention and protection against discrimination on 23 April 2018 in Skopje...

A three-day workshop organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo to support the Ministry of Local Government Administration (MLGA) in finalizing the draft Law on Allocation for Use and Exchange of Immovable Property of the Municipality concluded on 22 April 2018 in Tirana, Albania...

COPENHAGEN, 17 April 2018- Ignacio Sanchez Amor (MP, Spain), Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s human rights committee, today expressed his concern regarding the state of freedom of expression in Poland, following the stripping of immunity from several opposition parliamentarians last week...

BRČKO, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 28 March 2018- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) presented a first assessment of issues negatively impacting the quality and effectiveness of the judicial response to corruption in BiH to representatives of the judiciary and law enforcement agencies today in Brčko.

A specialized training course on use of the Electronic Disclosure Suite (EDS), an electronic database for accessing evidence gathered by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) concluded on 23 March 2018 in Sarajevo. Two two-day training events held in Banja Luka and Sarajevo, gathered some 50 legal associates and investigators from prosecutor’s offices and police investigators who work on war crimes cases from across Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)...

STRASBOURG / WARSAW / VIENNA, 21 March 2018. Promoting equality and combating racism are essential to fortify social cohesion and democratic security, the heads of three European human rights institutions said in a joint statement on today’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination...

International criminal law and transitional justice was the focus of an OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)-supported workshop for 20 law students from the Dzemal Bijedic University and the University of Mostar, which concluded on 9 March 2018 in Mostar...