News and press releases

The first OSCE-supported forum on Kazakhstan’s National Preventive Mechanism against Torture (NPM), focused on national and international experience in this field, concluded on 17 May 2017 in Astana.

Sustainable water governance with a focus on advanced education standards in the water sector was the focus of an OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on 16 May 2017 that took place today at Kazakhstan’s Parliament in Astana...

A four-day training course on psychological counselling for victims of domestic violence concluded on 12 May 2017 at the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...

More than 20 representatives of law enforcement agencies from Belarus, Moldova and the Russian Federation began a five-day training course co-organized by the OSCE in Minsk on 15 May 2017 on developing co-operation among law enforcement agencies in combating the spread of new psychoactive substances (NPS) facilitated by the so-called ‘Darknet’...

The OSCE Mission to Moldova organized the first of this year’s Human Rights Clubs discussions for lawyers from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River on 12 May 2017. The event, held in Varnita, brought together some 30 lawyers and NGO representatives to discuss how to better aid clients who encounter issues with their documentation...

A four-day conference, organized by the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre, on the role of armed and security forces in democratic societies started on 15 May 2017 in the coastal town of Budva, Montenegro...

An OSCE-supported workshop for the Kazakhstan-Russia experts’ commission meeting on the joint use and protection of trans-boundary water resources in the Ural River basin concluded on 16 May 2017 in Atyrau, Kazakhstan...