News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
ODIHR and OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine co-organize annual trial monitoring meeting in Kyiv
Publishing date: 13 June 2018
Participants from eight OSCE field operations and 16 non-governmental organizations from across the OSCE region shared experiences and exchanged good practices at the 16th annual trial monitoring meeting. The event was organized in Kyiv by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine from 12 to 14 June 2018.
Freedom of expression and preventing hate speech focus of OSCE training seminar for journalists in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 13 June 2018
An OSCE Programme Office in Astana-supported seminar, co-organized with NGO Legal Media Centre, on the protection of freedom of expression and policies to counter hate speech on the Internet took place on 12 June 2018 in Kostanay, Kazakhstan...
OSCE helps Ukraine to improve control and risk management for prevention of major accidents involving dangerous substances
Publishing date: 12 June 2018
Ukraine’s challenges in modernizing its chemical regulatory system to meet international standard were discussed at an OSCE Project Co-ordinator-hosted workshop on 12 and 13 June in Kyiv...
ODIHR publishes manual on joint training on hate crime for police and prosecutors in Bulgaria
Publishing date: 12 June 2018
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) launched a new publication to help train police and prosecutors to address hate crimes in Bulgaria at a workshop organized in partnership with the Prosecutor’s Office and the National Institute of Justice on 12 June 2018 in Sofia.
ODIHR hosts exhibition in Warsaw celebrating prominent women of 19th and 20th-century Georgia
Publishing date: 12 June 2018
An exhibition of images and biographies of distinguished women of Georgia – painters, artists, writers and public figures – who redefined women’s roles in the 19th and 20th-century Georgian society opened at the headquarters of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in
Twenty-six women leaders complete OSCE Border Management Staff Course
Publishing date: 12 June 2018
The OSCE Border Management Staff College (BMSC) concluded its 21st Border Management Staff Course for Women Leaders on 8 June in Dushanbe.
OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe hosts visit to assess projects funded by Japan
Publishing date: 11 June 2018
On 7 and 8 June 2018, the Programme Office in Dushanbe hosted a delegation from the Japanese Permanent Mission to the OSCE in Vienna. The main purpose of the visit was to assess the effectiveness of projects funded by Japan and implemented by the Office in the past several years.