News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Serbia and ODIHR prepare with civil society partners to follow elections to judicial self-administration bodies
Publishing date: 9 November 2015
The laws, rules and procedures for jointly assessing the upcoming elections of judges and prosecutors to the High Judicial Council and State Prosecutorial Council were the focus of a workshop in Belgrade on 6 November 2015, organized by the OSCE Mission to Serbia, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM) NGO...
OSCE supports energy efficiency workshop for secondary school teachers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 9 November 2015
An OSCE-supported training seminar on the topic of energy efficiency for school teachers took place on 9 November 2015 in Oskemen, Kazakhstan. The event was the last in a series of three sessions that trained over 300 secondary school teachers from Astana, Almaty and the Eastern Kazakhstan region...
Media’s independence must be respected, OSCE Representative says following court ruling on Rustavi 2 TV in Georgia
Publishing date: 6 November 2015
VIENNA, 6 November 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said that a court ruling in Georgia ordering the replacement of the management at television channel Rustavi 2, poses a threat to media freedom as it threatens the independence of a major media outlet’s editorial policy...
ODIHR reaches important milestone with training on human rights monitoring in Ukraine
Publishing date: 6 November 2015
Following the OSCE Office on Democratic Institutions and Human Rights’ (ODIHR) competitive call for proposals to Ukrainian civil society organizations (CSOs) for human rights monitoring pro-jects, ODIHR invited over 40 representatives from 12 Ukrainian CSOs to a capacity-building train-ing event on human rights monitoring, held in Kyiv between 2 and 6 November 2015...
Central Asian Youth Network alumni learn about OSCE in Vienna
Publishing date: 6 November 2015
Four students from the Central Asian Youth Network (CAYN) learnt about the work of OSCE and its institutions during a two-day study visit to Vienna, which concluded on 6 November 2015...
ODIHR trains Spanish police on human rights while countering terrorism
Publishing date: 6 November 2015
Complying with human rights standards, while effectively countering terrorism, was the focus of two training courses organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 2- 3 and 5- 6 November 2015 in Madrid, Spain...
OSCE roundtable discussion calls for improved policies of inclusion for Kosovo Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities
Publishing date: 5 November 2015
New policies for the inclusion of Kosovo Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities should be developed together with community representatives, contain clear objectives and measurable indicators, and have necessary funding, said participants of an OSCE roundtable discussion held in Prishtinë/Priština on 5 November 2015...