News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Weekly Update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 19 April 2016
Publishing date: 20 April 2016
Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM) continues to operate 24/7 at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). The overall cross-border traffic increased at both BCPs....
OSCE/ODIHR Director Link welcomes lifting of travel ban for Azerbaijani human rights defenders
Publishing date: 20 April 2016
WARSAW, 20 April 2016 Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), today welcomed Azerbaijan’s decision to lift travel bans on Leyla and Arif Yunus, two prominent Azerbaijani human rights defenders, who are also spouses...
High-level conference marks 20 years of OSCE High Commissioner’s Hague Recommendations on education rights
Publishing date: 20 April 2016
THE HAGUE, 20 April 2016- Education is in many ways the space where issues of equality, national identity and the concept of nationhood are being negotiated, said OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Astrid Thors today as she opened a high-level conference to mark 20 years of The Hague Recommendations Regarding the Education Rights of National Minorities...
65th IPRM meeting takes place in Ergneti
Publishing date: 20 April 2016
ERGNETI, 20 April 2016 – The 65th meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) took place today in Ergneti. The meeting was co-facilitated by Kęstutis Jankauskas, the Head of the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM), and Guenther Baechler, the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus...
OSCE Mission and OSCE/ODIHR support Montenegro’s parliament in drafting an action plan on gender sensitivity
Publishing date: 20 April 2016
The first activities of an action plan to create a more gender-sensitive national parliament in Montenegro were drafted during a workshop in Podgorica on 18-19 April 2016 organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro in co-operation with the Parliamentary Committee for Gender Equality and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, in Georgia, discusses implementation of integration strategy for minority participation
Publishing date: 20 April 2016
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Astrid Thors visited Georgia from 12 to 15 April 2016, where she discussed policies to ensure the participation of minorities in public life, education reforms, language policy, and minority representation, among other issues.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Steinmeier stresses importance of ODIHR’s work during visit to headquarters in Warsaw
Publishing date: 19 April 2016
WARSAW, 19 April 2016 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier, today visited the headquarters of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), in the context of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Office...