News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Women, Peace and Security Agenda under scrutiny at OSCE-supported workshop in Vienna
Publishing date: 20 April 2018
Government and civil society representatives from Andorra, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Slovakia gathered for the third OSCE National Action Plan Academy workshop on 19 and 20 April 2018 in Vienna to discuss good practices in the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.
OSCE PA human rights Chair urges restraint, dialogue in Armenia
Publishing date: 20 April 2018
COPENHAGEN, 20 April 2018- On the eighth consecutive day of protests in Yerevan and other cities in Armenia, Ignacio Sanchez Amor (MP, Spain), Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s human rights committee, today called on all sides to engage in constructive dialogue...
Concluding visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, OSCE Representative calls for strengthening independence of public service broadcasting and protecting safety of journalists
Publishing date: 20 April 2018
SARAJEVO, 20 April 2018 – OSCE media freedom representative Harlem Désir, concluded today his first official visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, emphasizing the need to strengthen media pluralism, including respecting the independence and sustainability of public service broadcasting, and the need to protect safety of journalists in the country...
OSCE and Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry open public council office in Shaartuz district, Tajikistan
Publishing date: 20 April 2018
The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe and Tajikistan's Interior Ministry opened the first Public Council under the jurisdiction of the Interior Ministry devoted to promoting community policing in Tajikistan, on 19 April 2018 in the Shaartuz district of the province of Khatlon...
OSCE supports gender mainstreaming in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 20 April 2018
Gender mainstreaming in local governments and election campaigns was the focus of an OSCE-supported training seminar for 30 high-level local government executives and local district legislators from the Zhambyl Region, held on 20 April 2018 in Taraz, Kazakhstan...
OSCE trains transport police in Kazakhstan on risk profiling at transportation facilities
Publishing date: 20 April 2018
An OSCE-supported five-day training seminar on risk profiling techniques to ensure public safety at transportation facilities concluded on 20 April 2018 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
ODIHR Director urges Armenian authorities to protect and ensure right to freedom of peaceful assembly
Publishing date: 19 April 2018
WARSAW, 19 April 2018 – Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), today urged the authorities in Armenia to protect and ensure the right to freedom of peaceful assembly in the country, as protests there continue...