News and press releases

First of the twenty talk shows in series named "Reaching the Trust Together” was aired on 7th September 2015 on the First Channel of Radio Television Montenegro. The series is supported by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro...

Guarantees of the provisions of the Aarhus Convention related to the access to justice in environmental matters in the context of modern international developments were discussed at the OSCE-supported workshop on 11 September 2015 in Yerevan...

To improve the efficiency of procedure for granting the status of a victim of trafficking in human beings it is necessary to enhance information exchange between social services and law enforcers, concluded the experts of the working group on the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), on 9 September 2015, in Kyiv...

A two-day training seminar on the judicial application of environmental legislation in civil cases began on 10 September 2015 in Astana.

An OSCE-supported research workshop on countering violent extremism in Central Asia concluded on 3 September 2015 in Astana, Kazakhstan. The two-day event was co-organized by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague and the Centre for Security Programs in Astana with funding from the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme and support from the OSCE Programme Office in Astana...

The final report by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on Albania’s 21 June local elections, recommends a review of the legislation to ensure alignment with OSCE commitments and international standards for democratic elections, and enhancing the independence, impartiality and professional capacity of the election administration...

Capacity-building seminar for judges-developers of educational courses and programs on application of the European Convention on Human Rights (Convention) and the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (Court) was held on 27-29 August in Truskavets, a town in Lviv region, western Ukraine...