News and press releases

Latvia’s early parliamentary elections on 17 September took place in a democratic and pluralistic environment but a significant part of the population continues to face barriers to political participation, the final report released by ODIHR concludes...

Identifying ways to strengthen the independence of Ukraine's judiciary was the focus of a two-day conference co-organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 20-21 December 2011 in Kyiv...

VIENNA, 20 December 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, said she was alarmed by the mass arrests of journalists in Turkey today and called for swift investigations...

A two-day workshop on administrative justice for representatives of Kosovo’s Ministry of Local Government Administration, Ministry of Public Administration, the Association of Kosovo Municipalities, judges and representatives of judicial and civil service training institutions concluded on 16 December 2011 in Prishtinë/Priština...

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo supported a ten-day training course on investigative reporting for fifteen TV, radio and print journalists, which concluded on 19 December 2011 in Prishtinë/Priština.

A roundtable meeting held in Kyiv on 19 December 2011 examined the results of a pilot study conducted in Ukraine in 2011 using a new methodology to assess the level of corruption...

A graduation ceremony for 35 police officers who attended a two-week training course on crowd and riot control, organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, concluded on 16 December 2011 in Vushtrri/Vučitrn...