News and press releases

Elections experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) met with electoral stakeholders in Yerevan on 18 and 19 February 2016 to present recommendations from the final report on the 6 December 2015 constitutional referendum in Armenia.

International standards and good practices in introduction of new voting technologies (NVT) were the focus of an expert seminar organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan and the Administration of the President of Armenia in co-operation with the OSCE/ODIHR on 19 February 2016 in Yerevan...

Identifying strategies to counter intolerance against Muslims was the focus of a conference organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the 2016 German Chairmanship, in Vienna on 19 February 2016.

The effectiveness of gender equality mechanisms at the local level in Ukraine was the focus of a workshop organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights (ODIHR), in co-operation with the Equal Opportunities Inter-Faction Union of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s Parliament, in Kharkiv, on 19 February 2016.

Some 120 political officials, civil society representatives, international experts and members of academia from more than 30 countries discussed practical steps towards improving political finance regulations in Eastern and Central Europe at a conference co-organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Tbilisi on 18 and 19 February 2016.

It is necessary to replace the military logic that still dominates in eastern Ukraine with the civilian one, said Alexander Hug, the Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, after his visits to Marinka, Telmanove and Kominternove on 17 February 2016...

OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier attended the 52nd Munich Security Conference from 12 to 14 February 2016, where, on the margins of the event, he held a number of bilateral meetings with high-level state officials and heads of international institutions...