News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission prepares graduate lawyers from northern Kosovo for bar exam
Publishing date: 9 November 2016
The OSCE Mission in Kosovo is organizing a series of training courses for graduate lawyers from northern Kosovo to help them prepare for the bar exam given by the Ministry of Justice...
Challenges of ensuring human rights in Ukraine’s detention facilities discussed at OSCE event
Publishing date: 9 November 2016
Civil society activists and officials from Ukraine discussed how to improve the functioning of the National Preventive Mechanisms, a tool to ensure monitoring of places of detention and to prevent the abuse of human rights there, at the 6th East European National Prevention Mechanisms Conference from 8 to 9 November 2016 in Lviv...
OSCE supports energy efficiency workshops for secondary school teachers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 9 November 2016
An OSCE-supported training seminar on energy efficiency and energy saving for some 70 secondary school teachers took place on 4 November 2016 in Uralsk, Kazakhstan...
OSCE Presence supports electoral reform in Albania
Publishing date: 8 November 2016
A senior elections expert began a three-day visit to Albania on 7 November 2016 as part of the OSCE Presence’s assistance to the electoral reform in the county, ahead of the June 2017 general elections...
OSCE promotes extra-judicial solutions to media-related disputes in Armenia
Publishing date: 7 November 2016
How to resolve media-related disputes without referring to the courts was the focus of a working seminar organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan on 5 November 2016 for journalists and media lawyers in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia...
OSCE Mission to Moldova supports youth engagement through public debates
Publishing date: 4 November 2016
The OSCE Mission to Moldova organized its second public debate contest on 2 November 2016 for young people, bringing together 98 high school students and their teachers for a debate in Balti.
Crucial role of youth activism in addressing anti-Semitism, discrimination and intolerance focus of OSCE/ODIHR event at the European Youth Centre
Publishing date: 4 November 2016
The role youth activists can play in countering anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance was at the centre of a seminar organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) from 2 to 4 November 2016 in Budapest for 60 youth activists from across the OSCE region.