News and press releases

The first of a series of training events for judicial experts on the Electronic Disclosure Suite (EDS) of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) held by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Office of the Trial Prosecutor of the ICTY started on 11 November 2013...

BELGRADE, 8 November 2013 – Representatives of prosecutors’ associations from across the region gathered today in Belgrade to exchange experiences on the judicial reform process. The conference on the “Reform of the judiciary and the role of professional associations” was organized by the OSCE Mission to Serbia and the Association of Public Prosecutors and Deputy Public Prosecutors of Serbia.

The OSCE Mission to Skopje in co-operation with the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption and with the EU Delegation is organizing a conference on good practices for political party and campaign financing that started in Skopje on 30 October 2013...

On 21 October 2013 the OSCE Mission to Montenegro presented a publication “Personal rights to liberty and security and ECHR Detention Case-Law” written by Zoran Pazin, State Agent of Montenegro before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasburg...

Training on international human rights standards and domestic legislation for representatives of civil society organizations monitoring penitentiary institutions, and penitentiary servants was held from 17 to 20 October 2013 by the OSCE Office in Yerevan in co-operation with the Helsinki Committee of Armenia and the non-governmental organization Penal Reform International...

An OSCE-supported exhibition by French photographer Eric Gourlan opened on 18 October 2013 at the Kyrgyzstan’s Theatre of Fine Arts. The exhibition features 40 pictures Gourlan took in two men’s colonies, a colony for women and a colony for adolescents. The images reflect the everyday routine of both the detainees and staff members of the colonies.The project is being implemented with support from the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan’s State Penitentiary Service, non-governmental organizations Egl and Freedom House...

Responsibility of media when reporting on court proceedings was the topic of a seminar organized by the OSCE Mission on 15 October 2013 in Podgorica. The focus of the debate was the balance journalists and editors need to strike between exercising the right to freedom of expression, on the one hand, and respecting presumption of innocence and the right to privacy during court cases, on the other hand...