News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Rehabilitation of victims of torture in focus at joint OSCE Chairmanship-ODIHR event in Vienna
Publishing date: 21 June 2018
The rehabilitation of victims of torture was the main focus of a workshop organized in Vienna on 21 June 2018 by the Italian OSCE Chairmanship, the Government of Denmark, the Government of Switzerland, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the inter-governmental
Young people from Western Balkans come together under OSCE-initiated Youth Trail
Publishing date: 21 June 2018
Over 40 young people from all over the Western Balkans gathered on 20 June 2018 in Tirana to participate in Youth Trail 2018. The event is being organized for the second year in a row by the OSCE Presence in Albania, the Italian OSCE Chairmanship, the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) and Tirana Municipality. For four days, the young people will connect, explore, discuss for democracy, peace and security in the region.
OSCE Mobile Training Team conducts course on identifying foreign terrorist fighters for border and security officers from Ukraine
Publishing date: 21 June 2018
On 20 June 2018, the OSCE Mobile Training Team concluded a three-day interactive training course on identifying foreign terrorist fighters in Lviv, Ukraine The training, organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department with the support of the Project Co-ordinator’s Office in Ukraine was attended by 14 border and security officers from Ukraine...
OSCE-supported legal framework for business development in Kyrgyzstan adopted
Publishing date: 21 June 2018
A roundtable discussion to mark the completion of the development of recommendations for a large-scale regulatory reform of business practices in Kyrgyzstan, hosted by the Kyrgyz Government’s Council on Regulatory Reform and the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, took place at the event to mark the launch of the reform on 18 June 2018 in Bishkek...
ODIHR coalition-building workshop in Warsaw brings together activists to promote best practices in reporting hate incidents
Publishing date: 21 June 2018
Efforts to address anti-Semitism, discrimination and intolerance through coalition-building and to create networks and coalitions to better report on hate incidents were the focus of an event organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 20 and 21 June 2018 in
OSCE Mission to Skopje supported workshop on combating corruption
Publishing date: 21 June 2018
A two-day workshop aimed at assisting representatives of law enforcement bodies to combat corruption concluded on 21 June 2018 in Skopje.
OSCE supported second workshop on identification guidelines to better assist victims of trafficking among migrants and refugees
Publishing date: 20 June 2018
The second in a series of OSCE workshops on the development of guidelines and a training module for better co-ordinated, harmonized and victim-centred identification of human trafficking cases among mixed migration flows concluded in Athens on 20 June 2018. The one-day event was organized jointly by the OSCE Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (OSR/CTHB) and the Office of the National Rapporteur on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece.