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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE/ODIHR presents recommendations from final report on 2015 local elections in Albania
Publishing date: 16 October 2015
Elections experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) met with electoral stakeholders in Tirana from 14 to 16 October 2015 to present recommendations from the final report on the 21 June 2015 local elections in Albania.
Kazakhstan’s officials learn about best practices in election administration during OSCE-supported study visit to Finland
Publishing date: 16 October 2015
The OSCE Programme Office in Astana and Finland’s Foreign Ministry organized a study tour to Helsinki for four members of Kazakhstan’s Central Election Commission (CEC) from 12 to 16 October 2015, with the aim of acquainting them with the institutional and legal framework of Finland’s election system and its election administration...
Mentoring is effective in promoting women’s participation in public and political life, say participants of OSCE expert workshop in Skopje
Publishing date: 15 October 2015
Mentoring is one of the most effective strategies to promote women’s participation in public and political life, said participants of an expert meeting in Skopje organized by the OSCE Gender Section on 12 October 2015, which brought together representatives of civil society, politics, business and academia from across the Western Balkans...
OSCE Programme Office in Astana supports human rights education for police
Publishing date: 12 October 2015
An OSCE-organized train-the-trainers course on human rights for 11 instructors from the Interior Ministry’s higher educational institutions across the country began today on 12 October 2015 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
OSCE trains Ukrainian law enforcers to fight IT-facilitated human trafficking crimes
Publishing date: 9 October 2015
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine organized a specialized training course from 5 to 9 October 2015 in Kyiv for 20 police officers from Ukraine’s Interior Ministry on investigating and combating human trafficking crimes committed with the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)...
Youth from minority communities in Georgia increasingly interested in learning Georgian through multilingual education, OSCE HCNM-commissioned study concludes
Publishing date: 9 October 2015
Young people from ethnic minority communities in Georgia are increasingly interested in learning the Georgian language as a means to improve their socio-economic opportunities, the “Research Study on Multilingual Education in Georgia” commissioned by the OSCE High Commissioner on National
OSCE supports series of training seminars on election legislation for administrative and local court judges in Ukraine
Publishing date: 9 October 2015
More than 200 administrative and local court judges from all over Ukraine participated at the OSCE-supported training seminars on review of election-related disputes, which held from 28 September to 9 October 2015...