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Several OSCE participating States renewed and updated their national appointments to the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration on 29 September 2025. Cyprus, France, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Slovenia and Switzerland made new appointments and renewed mandates for their members to the Court in line with the provisions of the 1992 Stockholm Convention.

National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) play an indispensable role in ensuring respect for and protection of human rights in the context of national security as counter-terrorism measures expand, often at the expense of human rights, democracy and the rule of law, participants said today at an event organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).

Security and justice can only be achieved when institutions co-operate across the entire chain- from investigation to prosecution to adjudication. A forensic result, no matter how advanced, only has meaning when police investigators can use it, prosecutors can validate it, and judges can trust it. This was a key message at the 10th Regional Forensic Conference titled “Advancing Technologies in Facial Recognition, Fingerprint, DNA and Vehicle Forensics to Address Transnational Organized Crime.”

The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, in close partnership with the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Tajikistan, supported the organization and delivery of a high-level briefing to present the new National Strategy on Countering Terrorism and Extremism for 2026–2041 and its accompanying Action Plan through 2030.

As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes daily life, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is calling for renewed attention to a fundamental yet often overlooked right: freedom of thought.

On 6 October 2025, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, in co-operation with the National Human Rights Centre and the Committee on Family and Women of the Republic of Uzbekistan, organized national discussions in Nukus on the current National Action Plan for 2022–2025 and the draft National

The OSCE Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) organized a webinar for representatives from border security and law enforcement agencies from the OSCE area, addressing a critical but often overlooked aspect of organized crime: the roles that women play within criminal networks. Drawing on