News and press releases

Transparency and public participation in the law-making process was the focus of a workshop in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), in co-operation with Armenia’s Ministry of Justice and the OSCE Office in Yerevan, on 14 and 15 July 2015.

Measures to make political parties in Ukraine and in the wider OSCE region more transparent and accountable were the focus of an expert workshop jointly organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the partners. They included the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), the Ukrainian civil society organizations Agency for Legislative Initiatives (ALI) as well as the Civil Network “OPORA”. The event was hosted by the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv,on 14 and 15 July 2015.

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and Bulgaria’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) signed an agreement on 13 July 2015 in Warsaw to train prosecutors in recognizing, understanding and investigating hate crimes.

OSCE Mission to Skopje and the Ministry of Education and Science held a ceremony to award schools that won the title of being safe and environmentally friendly, in Skopje on 14 July 2015...

On 10 July, the OSCE Mission to Moldova organized the second meeting this year of the Human Rights Club for lawyers from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River. The event was held at the Tiraspol office of the OSCE Mission to Moldova and brought together more than 40 lawyers...

OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine conducted the Second Summer School on General Legal Theory for Law Professors held in Tatariv, Ivano-Frankivsk oblast, on 8-11 July 2015...

The OSCE Centre in Bishkek signed long-term bilateral agreements on cooperation in the sphere of combating terrorism and arms control with the Kyrgyz Ministry of Defence and the Kyrgyz National Guard on July 10, 2015...