News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Moldova prepares trainers to improve police response in domestic violence cases
Publishing date: 4 October 2016
On 27 and 28 September 2016, the OSCE Mission to Moldova held a training-of-trainers course for 25 law enforcement representatives from across the country on preventing and combating domestic violence. The event, held in Chisinau, was organized in co-operation with Moldova’s General Police Inspectorate...
OSCE promotes international standards to help torture victims in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 3 October 2016
An OSCE-supported training seminar on the UN Istanbul Protocol on Torture and related technical standards began on 3 October 2016 in Astana, Kazakhstan...
OSCE-supported training course for Montenegro’s parliamentary services focus on communication and presentation skills
Publishing date: 30 September 2016
Communication and presentation skills were the topic for the second in a series of educational training courses held for representatives of Montenegro’s Parliament from 29 to 30 September 2016 in Podgorica...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports two-day training course on gender equality for Municipal Gender Focal Points
Publishing date: 30 September 2016
The principles of anti-discrimination, standards in gender equality, the relevant legal framework, gender-sensitive language, and the portrayal of women in the media were among the topics of a two-day training course supported by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro held for Municipal Gender Focal Points from 12 municipalities, which concluded on 30 September 2016 in Podgorica...
OSCE field operations promote women's empowerment at the OSCE/ODIHR Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
Publishing date: 29 September 2016
Equal economic opportunities, women’s active engagement in political and public life and combating domestic violence were the focus of a discussion held by OSCE field operations in Armenia, Moldova and Tajikistan on 28 September 2016 in Warsaw, Poland, at a side event to the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting...
Co-operation between criminal investigation departments and uniformed police in focus of OSCE Mission to Skopje-organized event
Publishing date: 29 September 2016
A two-day seminar aimed at fostering internal co-operation and co-ordination between the uniformed police and criminal investigation departments, organized by the OSCE Mission to Skopje, in co-operation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, began on 29 September 2016 in Skopje...
OSCE Representative urges authorities to intensify efforts to solve murder of journalist Martin O’Hagan in Northern Ireland
Publishing date: 29 September 2016
VIENNA, 29 September 2016 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today urged the authorities in the United Kingdom to intensify their efforts to find the killers of investigative journalist Martin O’Hagan, who was shot and killed in September 2001...