Organization for Security and Co-operation in EuropeWhat we do
All top stories
Students discuss international human rights protection at OSCE-supported course in Turkmenistan
ASHGABAT, 30 November 2012 – Forty senior students of the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan attended an OSCE-supported course on the international protection of human rights that concluded in Ashgabat today...
OSCE Centre holds expert meeting on administrative justice reform in Kazakhstan
ASTANA, 29 November 2012 - An OSCE-supported expert conference on the role of administrative law and justice in human rights protection was held in Astana today...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine trains trainers on corrective work for domestic violence perpetrators
KYIV, 23 November 2012 – A OSCE-supported train-the-trainers seminar on corrective work with domestic violence perpetrators for senior teaching staff from the Ukrainian State Institute for Family and Youth Policy concluded in Kyiv today... ()
Andorran Foreign Minister at OSCE Permanent Council
Andorran Foreign Minister Gilbert Saboya i Sunyé addressed the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on 22 November 2012...
OSCE Centre in Astana supports discussion on countering terrorism
ASTANA, 22 November 2012 – An OSCE-supported one-day international conference on countering terrorism, which brought together some 50 parliamentarians, international and national experts, academics, and representatives of law enforcement agencies, was held at premises of Majilis of the Parliament of Kazakhstan in Astana today...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine supports conference on national preventive mechanisms against torture
The Forth East European Conference on National Preventive Mechanisms started on 15 November 2012 in Odessa with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU)... ()
OSCE participating States should do more to protect and facilitate peaceful assemblies, concludes ODIHR monitoring report
OSCE participating States should protect and facilitate peaceful assemblies, and restrictions should be proportionate and only imposed when necessary, says a report released by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Vienna on 9 November 2012...
OSCE meeting addresses challenges and good practices on freedoms of peaceful assembly and association
VIENNA, 8 November – Governments should welcome new technologies as an important means to facilitate, protect and promote the fundamental rights to peaceful assembly and association, civil society participants said at the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting, which opened today in Vienna...
Good practices, challenges to freedom of assembly and association highlighted at civil society forum
Promoting the freedom of assembly and association, as well as the challenges faced in exercising this fundamental right, were the focus of a forum for civil society representatives organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Irish OSCE Chairmanship on 7 November 2012...
OSCE helps trains medical staff of Kyrgyzstan’s colonies
A three-week training course for medical staff of prison colonies concluded on 1 November 2012. The course was organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the State Penitentiary Service and was hosted by the Training centre for prison staff...