News and press releases

The OSCE and international partners honoured individuals working to promote human rights, good governance, civic activism, local government reform, community service and free speech in Armenia at the Universal Rights Awards Ceremony on 19 June 2014 in Yerevan...

External police oversight and accountability mechanisms were discussed at an OSCE-supported international seminar held on 19 June 2014 in Yerevan...

Challenges and good practices in protecting the freedom of peaceful assembly were the focus of a roundtable discussion in Washington D.C., organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and hosted by the George Washington University School of Law, on 18 and 19 June 2014.

Judicial independence in Serbia was the main topic of discussion at the OSCE Mission to Serbia conference held in Belgrade on 18 June 2014...

The situation across the country was calm, except parts of Donbas where tensions remained. Donetsk city remained outwardly calm. The police estimated that several hundred thousand people have now left the city. The mood among those that remained is uncertain and anxious. Mortar fire was reported to have continued in Sloviansk. The SMM has not reestablished communication with the four monitors from the Donetsk team and four monitors from the Luhansk team with whom it lost contact on 26 May and 29 May respectively...

COPENHAGEN, 18 June 2014 – Sustained work towards a new universal climate agreement, regulations to limit the risk of financial crashes and continued attention to the economic impacts of migration are among the recommendations made by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Economic Affairs, Science, Technology and Environment (Second Committee) in its draft resolution for the PA’s upcoming Annual Session...

Criminal justice experts from OSCE participating States, executive structures and international organizations gathered in Vienna at the OSCE’s Annual Police Experts Meeting which started in Vienna on 17 June 2014...