News and press releases

The Delegation of the European Union to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and EU Special Representative in BiH, the US Embassy in BiH and the OSCE Mission to BiH welcome yesterday’s long-awaited adoption of the Revised National War Crimes Processing Strategy by the BiH Council of Ministers. The adoption of the Revised Strategy is an important step in delivering justice for all victims of war crimes and reducing the impunity gap, as well as a key requirement outlined in the European Commission Opinion on BiH’s EU membership application.

The OSCE Presence in Albania organized a course on drug investigation for fifteen officers from the Albanian State Police Anti-Drug Units from 22 to 25 September 2020. The course aimed at enhancing the State Police’s capacity to dismantle organized crime groups specialized in drug trafficking, through increasing their knowledge of the new ways criminal chains operate...

Kathleen Kavalec, Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) concluded her two-day visit to Mostar and Stolac on 24 September 2020. Over the course of the visit, she discussed preparations for local elections, to be held later in the autumn, as well as the Mission’s continuous support in promoting inter-religious dialogue in the country...

The OSCE Presence in Albania organized two, three-day training sessions on how to film and edit stories on smartphones that ended on 24 September 2020. Twenty-five journalists from Albania’s public broadcaster RTSH participated. The mobile journalism course – the first of this kind for RTSH – marks the start of a year-long professional training programme run by the OSCE Presence as part of the EU-funded Media in Focus project...

An OSCE-supported seminar on the protection of freedom of expression and the judicial regulation of defamation took place on 24 September 2020 in Nur-Sultan. The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan co-organized the event with the Supreme Court, NGO Legal Media Centre, Internews Kazakhstan and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)...

Judges and members of Uzbekistan’s Supreme Court and the National Human Rights Centre completed a three-day seminar on 24 September 2020 about using the provisions of international treaties in decisions of the country’s courts...

ODIHR final report on 2020 Poland presidential elections The presidential election in Poland was professionally managed despite legal uncertainty during the electoral process and gaps in regulating important aspects. These are some of the main conclusions from the final report on the Polish