News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Respect for Human Rights must be central in response to security challenges, says OSCE/ODIHR Director Link
Publishing date: 10 December 2015
WARSAW, 10 December 2015 – OSCE participating States must make sure that human rights are an integral and central part of their responses to the profound security challenges they are facing today, Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) said on the occasion of today’s international Human Rights Day...
OSCE marks International Human Rights Day with Youth Legal Forum in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 10 December 2015
ASTANA, 10 December 2015 – The annual OSCE-sponsored Youth Legal Forum dedicated to "Human Rights Protection in the Fight against Terrorism” took place today at the Kazakh Humanities and Law University in Astana (KAZGUU) in recognition of the International Human Rights Day...
OSCE Mission to Moldova concludes series of seminars on addressing gender inequalities and combating domestic violence
Publishing date: 10 December 2015
On 8 December 2015, the OSCE Mission to Moldova held the last in a series of seminars for college and university students on gender equality, domestic violence and family counselling. The final seminar, held in Balti, provided 35 students and teachers of social work with information on assisting the victims of domestic violence and on rehabilitating the perpetrators of domestic violence...
OSCE Centre supports Ninth International Festival of Documentary Films in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 10 December 2015
BISHKEK, 10 December 2015 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek is marking International Human Rights Day by supporting the Ninth International Festival of Documentary Films on Human Rights, which starts tomorrow and is organized by the Bir Duino-Kyrgyzstan human rights movement...
Regional co-operation crucial in reducing disaster risk, conclude participants at OSCE-supported discussion in Montenegro
Publishing date: 10 December 2015
BUDVA, Montenegro, 10 December 2015 – A three-day regional disaster risk reduction training course, organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, hosted by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, was completed today in Budva...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine opens Forward Patrol Base in Debaltseve
Publishing date: 10 December 2015
DEBALTSEVE, 10 December 2015- The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) is opening a new Forward Patrol Base in Debaltseve today, becoming the third such Base established by the Mission in the Donetsk region and the second one in an area outside of government control in this eastern region of Ukraine.
OSCE workshop in Vienna focuses on networking mechanisms to counter terrorist kidnapping and hostage-taking
Publishing date: 10 December 2015
VIENNA, 10 December 2015 – Establishing an international network of national contact points to co-operate on addressing cases of kidnapping and hostage–taking by terrorists is the focus of a two-day meeting starting in Vienna today and organized by the Transnational Threats Department of the OSCE...