News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE-supported training on understanding and investigating hate crimes takes place in Skopje
Publishing date: 23 April 2015
The OSCE Mission to Skopje, in co-operation with the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), will train 50 law enforcement officers in recognizing, understanding and investigating hate crimes from 23 to 29 April 2015 in Skopje...
Education about Roma and Sinti genocide is vital to countering discrimination today, say participants at OSCE/ODIHR seminar
Publishing date: 23 April 2015
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Practices within the OSCE region for educating about the Roma and Sinti genocide were the focus at an event hosted jointly by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the Living History Forum and Swedish Equality Ombudsman on 23 April 2015 in Stockholm.
Improvement of accountability and transparency of public institutions in focus of OSCE seminar
Publishing date: 23 April 2015
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro, in co-operation with the United States Embassy in Podgorica organized a three-day seminar from 22-24 April 2015 in Budva on the importance of public information and outreach in the Judicial, Prosecutorial, and Police institutions...
Ukraine and Moldova endorse Dniester River Basin climate change adaptation strategy
Publishing date: 23 April 2015
High level government representatives from Ukraine and Moldova, along with parliamentarians, experts and NGO representatives from both countries, convened in Kyiv on 23 April 2015, to discuss the trans-boundary climate change adaptation strategy and co-operation in the Dniester/Nistru River basin...
OSCE facilitates public discussion on implementation of Free Access to Information Law
Publishing date: 23 April 2015
Public discussion on the implementation of the Free Access to Information Act supported by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro and in co-operation with the Agency for the Protection of Personal Data and Free Access to Information, took place on 21 April 2015 in Niksic...
OSCE Presence trains Albanian public broadcaster on election reporting
Publishing date: 22 April 2015
News editors and journalists of the Albanian public broadcaster are being trained on election reporting in a three-day intensive course that started on 21 April 2015 in Tirana...
OSCE/ODIHR experts discuss electoral recommendations in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 22 April 2015
Elections experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) visited Ashgabat to lead a two-day workshop on 21 and 22 April 2015, focused on recommendations provided in the ODIHR final report for the 2013 parliamentary elections.