News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Programme Office in Astana supports human rights education for police
Publishing date: 12 October 2015
An OSCE-organized train-the-trainers course on human rights for 11 instructors from the Interior Ministry’s higher educational institutions across the country began today on 12 October 2015 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
OSCE trains Ukrainian law enforcers to fight IT-facilitated human trafficking crimes
Publishing date: 9 October 2015
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine organized a specialized training course from 5 to 9 October 2015 in Kyiv for 20 police officers from Ukraine’s Interior Ministry on investigating and combating human trafficking crimes committed with the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)...
Youth from minority communities in Georgia increasingly interested in learning Georgian through multilingual education, OSCE HCNM-commissioned study concludes
Publishing date: 9 October 2015
Young people from ethnic minority communities in Georgia are increasingly interested in learning the Georgian language as a means to improve their socio-economic opportunities, the “Research Study on Multilingual Education in Georgia” commissioned by the OSCE High Commissioner on National
OSCE supports series of training seminars on election legislation for administrative and local court judges in Ukraine
Publishing date: 9 October 2015
More than 200 administrative and local court judges from all over Ukraine participated at the OSCE-supported training seminars on review of election-related disputes, which held from 28 September to 9 October 2015...
OSCE/ODIHR and Council of Europe pilot online learning course on hate crime
Publishing date: 8 October 2015
"Distance Learning Course on Hate Crime," an online course designed for legal professionals, was launched today in Sarajevo, by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Council of Europe's Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) programme.
OSCE Mission to Moldova supports launch of Anti-trafficking Commission in Gagauzia
Publishing date: 8 October 2015
An event to launch the activities of a Territorial Commission on Anti-trafficking for the Autonomous Territorial Unit (ATU) of Gagauzia was held in Comrat on 6 October 2015 with the support of the OSCE Mission to Moldova. Members of the local Commission, the Permanent Secretariat of the National Committee for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings and representatives of the OSCE Mission to Moldova attended the event...
OSCE’s study on National Action Plans for implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325 presented in Podgorica
Publishing date: 8 October 2015
The OSCE Study on National Action Plans on the Implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, which analyses the strategies of 27 countries in the OSCE region in implementing this decision on women, peace and security, was presented on 6 October 2015 in Podgorica, Montenegro...