News and press releases

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan held a conference in Tashkent on 3 December 2012 where parliamentarians, representatives of ministries, scientists and farmers discussed a new law drafted by a group of specialists and Uzbek parliamentarians aimed at establishing agricultural co-operatives...

Representatives of state authorities, international organizations and embassies discussed the development of national human rights protection mechanisms in Kazakhstan and their efficiency, as well as co-ordination with international institutions at a roundtable event in Astana on International Human Rights Day on 10 December 2012...

The OSCE Mission to Skopje provided support for an international conference on 7 December 2012 to promote anti-corruption activities and to discuss related challenges...

The OSCE Office in Yerevan, jointly with Armenia’s National Assembly, hosted a roundtable on inter-parliamentary co-operation and parliamentary diplomacy from 8 to 10 December 2012 in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia...

The importance of protecting human rights while countering terrorism was highlighted by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) at a two-and-a-half-day training course for law enforcement officials, which ended on 6 December 2012 in Kyiv...

The early parliamentary elections in Montenegro on 14 October were pluralistic, however, areas such as the compilation of voter lists and the procedure for the review of complaints need further improvement, says the final report by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) released on 7 December 2012...

DUBLIN, 7 December 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed her concern today over the death of television reporter Kazbek Gekkiyev, who was murdered in the Russian southern republic of Kabardino-Balkaria...