News and press releases

A new publication to highlight the role national human rights institutions can play in protecting and promoting women’s rights and gender equality was presented at a regional expert workshop, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Sarajevo on 4 December 2012...

The OSCE Office in Yerevan jointly with Armenia’s Chamber of Advocates hosted a discussion on 4 December 2012, in Yerevan, on third party intervention in domestic and international litigation, specifically on the submission of amicus curiae (‘friend of the court’) briefs in Armenia...

Tunisia’s draft law on establishing an independent election management body addresses several key issues to the establishment and operation of a permanent and impartial election commission, but there is room for improvement, according to a review released by ODIHR on 4 December 2012...

The OSCE Mission to Skopje organized a five-day study visit to the police training facilities in Croatia and Serbia for ten trainers from the Interior Ministry from 2 to 8 December 2012...

From 30 November to 1 December 2012, the Head of the OSCE Centre in Astana, Ambassador Natalya Zarudna, and the Centre staff visited the South Kazakhstan Region and its capital, Shymkent...

Young diplomats from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan discussed quiet and preventive diplomacy mechanisms at an OSCE-supported course that ended in Ashgabat on 30 November 2012...

More than one hundred legal practitioners and scholars are taking part in an OSCE-supported international forum on the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) that starts in western Ukrainian city of Lviv on 30 November 2012...