News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine trains newly-appointed judges in drafting quality court decisions on criminal and civil matters
Publishing date: 30 October 2015
More than 120 newly-appointed local court judges from across Ukraine participated in four OSCE-supported training sessions on opinion writing in criminal and civil matters held from 14 September to 30 October 2015 in the cities of Odesa, Chernivtsi, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports conference on prevention of violent extremism and radicalization
Publishing date: 30 October 2015
Preventing violent extremism and radicalisation leading to terrorism (PERT) was the focus of the OSCE Mission to Skopje-supported conference held today in Skopje...
OSCE Special Representative promotes role of partnerships at Human Trafficking Conference in Madrid
Publishing date: 30 October 2015
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Ambassador Madina Jarbussynova, on 30 October 2015 in Madrid, highlighted the importance of partnerships among organizations and States in the fight against human trafficking...
OSCE Office in Tajikistan trains judges and journalists on defamation issues
Publishing date: 30 October 2015
Defamation, libel, hate speech and the presumption of innocence were the focus of a two-day seminar organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan and the Council of Justice of the Republic of Tajikistan, which concluded on 27 October 2015 in Dushanbe...
OSCE supports anti-corruption pilot programme for secondary schools students and teachers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 30 October 2015
An OSCE-supported training seminar for some 100 secondary school teachers on a new anti-corruption curriculum took place on 30 October 2015 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The seminar was the last stage in a series of sessions for 150 school students at two Kazakh- and three Russian-speaking schools which were held earlier in Almaty...
OSCE/ODIHR trains police commanders from Poland on human rights-based policing of peaceful assemblies
Publishing date: 29 October 2015
Human rights-compliant policing of peaceful assemblies was the focus of training for Polish officers, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Szczytno, Poland on 28 and 29 September 2015.
All Montenegrin municipalities signed Memorandum of Understanding committing to promote gender equality
Publishing date: 29 October 2015
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro and the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights signed on October 28 2015 a Memorandum of Understanding with Montenegrin municipalities of Žabljak, Šavnik and Plužine, aiming to strengthen the co-operation in the area of gender equality...