News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Independence of judiciary in focus of OSCE seminar in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 25 November 2015
ASHGABAT, 25 November 2015 – International standards and best practices on the independence of the judiciary are the focus of an OSCE-supported three-day seminar that opened in Ashgabat today...
OSCE launches a volume of decisions by the high instance court to support Armenia’s judicial system
Publishing date: 23 November 2015
A volume of decisions by the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation for 2014 was launched on 20 November 2015 in Yerevan. It aims to serve as a useful tool and resource for all criminal lawyers...
OSCE supports expert debate in Kyiv on constitutional changes in the area of judicial reform
Publishing date: 19 November 2015
KYIV, 19 November 2015 – Amendments to Ukraine’s Constitution that are essential for judicial reform are being debated today by experts, officials, diplomats and academic representatives at an event organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine...
OSCE Mission to Serbia and ODIHR prepare with civil society partners to follow elections to judicial self-administration bodies
Publishing date: 9 November 2015
The laws, rules and procedures for jointly assessing the upcoming elections of judges and prosecutors to the High Judicial Council and State Prosecutorial Council were the focus of a workshop in Belgrade on 6 November 2015, organized by the OSCE Mission to Serbia, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM) NGO...
OSCE Mission to Moldova brings together lawyers working to safeguard the rights of children on both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River
Publishing date: 2 November 2015
The OSCE Mission to Moldova organized the third Human Rights Club meeting this year for lawyers from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River. The event, hosted by the Mission on 30 October 2015 in Tiraspol, brought together some 25 lawyers to discuss legal approaches to safeguarding the rights of children living on both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine trains newly-appointed judges in drafting quality court decisions on criminal and civil matters
Publishing date: 30 October 2015
More than 120 newly-appointed local court judges from across Ukraine participated in four OSCE-supported training sessions on opinion writing in criminal and civil matters held from 14 September to 30 October 2015 in the cities of Odesa, Chernivtsi, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports regional conference of Supreme Court Presidents
Publishing date: 29 October 2015
SKOPJE, 29 October 2015 – Presidents of the Supreme Courts from the region gathered today in Skopje at a high-level conference, co-hosted by the country’s Supreme Court and the OSCE Mission to Skopje, to exchange experiences and draft joint recommendations in regards to applying the practice of the European Courts of Human Rights (ECHR) within domestic jurisdictions...