News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Improving gender mainstreaming migration policies and sex-disaggregated data essential to promoting the rights of women migrants, say gender equality and migration experts
Publishing date: 20 September 2018
Experts and practitioners on gender equality and migration discussed the challenges facing women migrants and good practices to promote their rights at a side event organized by the OSCE Gender Section during the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 18 September 2018.
Press Statement of Special Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Sajdik after Meeting of Trilateral Contact Group on 19 September 2018
Publishing date: 20 September 2018
MINSK, 20 September 2018 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Martin Sajdik, made the following statement to the press after the meeting of the TCG and its Working Groups in Minsk on 19 September 2018:..
Gender dynamics of human trafficking explored at OSCE/ODIHR event in Warsaw
Publishing date: 19 September 2018
Trafficking in human beings is often gender-specific, as are its consequences, including the harm it causes and the recovery process for survivors, said participants in an event co-organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Office of the Special
ODIHR experts discuss follow-up to electoral recommendations in Romania
Publishing date: 19 September 2018
Election experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) visited Bucharest from 17 to 19 September 2018 to discuss the status of follow-up on ODIHR’s electoral recommendations with officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Permanent Electoral Authority,
ODIHR Women’s Power Breakfast highlights need for gender sensitivity and equality in justice systems
Publishing date: 19 September 2018
The under-representation of women in justice system institutions and its impact on justice system outcomes were the focus of a Women’s Power Breakfast in Warsaw on 19 September 2018, during the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. The event was co-organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic
Gender mainstreaming in Montenegrin parliament focus of OSCE Mission training course
Publishing date: 19 September 2018
In an effort to ensure that gender equality is a core component in legislative drafting, the OSCE Mission, in co-operation with the Parliamentary Committee for Gender Equality in Montenegro, held a training course on gender mainstreaming on 18 and 19 September 2018 in Podgorica...
OSCE project on effective criminal justice strategies and practices to combat gender-based violence in Eastern Europe launched in Vienna
Publishing date: 19 September 2018
An OSCE project to support criminal justice systems in Eastern Europe in their fight against gender-based violence, developed by the Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department (TNTD/SPMU), was launched on 20 and 21 September 2018 in Vienna...