News and press releases

The promotion of gender equality was among the challenges faced by Roma and Sinti women that were the focus of a consultation meeting for Roma and Sinti women activists at the Warsaw headquarters of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 18 and 19 May 2015.

OSCE-supported second bilateral meeting of Parliamentary Committees for Environmental Protection from Montenegro and Albania was held in Podgorica on 15 May 2015. The Chairs of the committees, Predrag Sekulic from Montenegro and Eduard Shalsi from Albania, and their deputies discussed possible joint activities...

A three-day workshop on ways to integrate anti-corruption assessment into the legal policy of Tajikistan concluded at the OSCE Office in Tajikistan on 15 May 2015...

The OSCE Centre in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz State Border Service and the local government in Batken, southern Kyrgyzstan, conducted a meeting aimed at early-warning and conflict-prevention on May 16...

The OSCE Mission to Skopje signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Gjorce Petrov municipality, on 15 May 2015, to introduce the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) model as quality instrument in the work of the municipal administration...

On 14 May 2015, the OSCE Mission to Moldova started a series of public lectures at Comrat University, as part of the project supporting participation of youth from Gagauzia in public and political life...

The review of limitations on fundamental rights, such as freedoms of association and expression, as well as the rights of individuals to vote and run as candidates are among the main recommendations in the final report by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on the 1 March 2015 parliamentary elections in Tajikistan.