News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Border Management Staff Course for Women Leaders concludes at OSCE Border Management Staff College
Publishing date: 27 May 2016
DUSHANBE, 27 May 2016 – A one-month Border Management Staff Course for Women Leaders concluded today at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe, which trained 25 female border officials representing ten OSCE participating States- Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Mongolia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, and Ukraine- and one OSCE Partner for Co-operation, Algeria...
OSCE facilitates consolidation workshop on Regulatory Reform Roadmap for Armenia
Publishing date: 27 May 2016
The finalization of a Regulatory Reform Roadmap for Armenia was the focus of a workshop co-organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR), the Ministry of Justice of Armenia and the OSCE Office in Yerevan on 27 and 28 May 2016 in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia.
Judges and prosecutors in Bosnia and Herzegovina, at OSCE meeting, learn about videoconferencing to reach remote witnesses
Publishing date: 27 May 2016
ISTOČNO SARAJEVO / BRČKO DISTRICT, 27 May 2016 – The use of videoconferencing for interviewing witnesses at remote locations was the focus of a two-day peer-to-peer meeting the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina organized for judges and prosecutors who are working on war crimes cases in courts and prosecutors' offices at the entity level and Brčko District...
OSCE-supported event trains Moldovan judges and prosecutors on investigating and prosecuting cybercrimes
Publishing date: 27 May 2016
A seminar organized by the OSCE Mission to Moldova on 25 May 2016 trained 25 judges and prosecutors on investigating and prosecuting a range of cybercrimes, including online child pornography and human trafficking over the Internet...
OSCE organizes study tour to Russia to enhance court and media relations in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 27 May 2016
The issues of enhancing the interaction between the courts and the media in Kazakhstan were in the spotlight of an OSCE-organized three-day study tour to Russian Federation by a delegation from the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan, Almaty City Court and the Court Reporters Guild from 25 to 27 May 2016...
OSCE Programme Office in Astana supports publication of Ombudsman’s Annual Report
Publishing date: 27 May 2016
ASTANA, 27 May 2016 – An OSCE-supported presentation of the report on the activities of Kazakhstan’s National Human Rights Commissioner (Ombudsman) in 2015 took place today in Astana bringing together some 60 parliamentarians, government officials, legal scholars, representatives of non-governmental organizations and media...
In Georgia, OSCE PA Special Representative calls for calm in advance of elections, deplores shooting at administrative boundary line
Publishing date: 27 May 2016
TBILISI, 27 May 2016 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Special Representative on the South Caucasus Kristian Vigenin (MP, Bulgaria), today concluded a two-day visit to Georgia...