Activities
Gender equality
The OSCE aims to provide equal opportunities for women and men, as well as to integrate gender equality into policies and practices, both within participating States and the Organization itself.
With local partners, the OSCE initiates and runs projects across the OSCE region to empower women, and build local capacities and expertise on gender issues. It co-operates with authorities in reviewing legislation and assists in building national mechanisms to ensure equality between women and men.
The Organization also promotes gender balance among OSCE staff at all levels, and aims to ensure a professional working environment where women and men are treated equally.
OSCE Institutions active in promoting gender equality:
Features
Armenian aims to enhance women's economic opportunities
Sona Karapetyan, from the remote Armenian province of Syunik, believes that young people's most important task is to empower their community by participating in civic life.
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ODIHR helps train police and change attitudes to combat domestic violence
The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is tackling domestic violence by supporting legislative reform, police training and improved co-operation between NGOs and state agencies.
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Election of "virtual" women's government highlights inequality in Serbia
To draw attention to the gender imbalance in high-level politics in Serbia, despite the active interest of a number of highly qualified women, the OSCE supported a media campaign to elect a women's "government of experts".
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A workshop was organized by the OSCE Centre in Almaty to train repatriated women on leadership and business skills and to raise their awareness on human rights, Turgen, Kazakhstan. (OSCE/Gulnara Yessirgepova)