News and press releases

The Head of OSCE Mission to Montenegro Ambassador, Janina Hrebickova; Minister for Human and Minority Rights, Suad Numanovic; Mayor of Capital City of Podgorica Slavoljub Stijepovic, and the President of the local parliament Djordje Suhih signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together on promoting gender equality on 28 November 2014...

Sixty high-school students from the Albanian towns of Lezha, Puka, Korça, Kukës and Peshkopi, met on 2 December 2014 with high-level state officials, including President Bujar Nishani, as part of an OSCE project aimed at strengthening the participation of citizens – especially young people – in decision-making processes at the local and central level. The goal was to enable them become active citizens, to promote a sense of civic responsibility and a better understanding of what democracy means...

As part of its support to the implementation of media reform, the OSCE Mission to Serbia, together with the Ministry of Culture and Information and the EU Delegation to Serbia, organized consultations between the relevant stakeholders and the authorities on 28 November in Arandjelovac...

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku and Azerbaijan’s Justice Academy organized a two-day train-the-trainers course on 1 and 2 December 2014, focusing on the legal norms of preventing domestic violence...

With the support of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, the “Open Day: Working together” was held in Struga on 1 December 2014 to introduce regional activities of a locally-based NGO Network...

With the goal of strengthening the capacities of the Parliamentary Committee for Gender Equality and their oversight role, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro supported two thematic sessions of the Committee that took place on 21 and 24 November 2014 in Podgorica...

The OSCE Mission supported the NGO centre for development of non–governmental organisations (CRNVO) in the development of 2013 the monitoring report on good governance in local self-government, involving 21 municipalities in Montenegro, which was presented on 27 November 2014 in Podgorica.