News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Draft National Strategy and Action Plan for combating trafficking in human beings focus of OSCE-supported workshop held in Podgorica
Publishing date: 14 June 2018
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro, in partnership with Montenegrin National Coordinator’s Office for Combating Human Trafficking, organized a workshop dedicated to the preparation of the 2019-2024 Draft National Strategy for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (THB) and the 2019 Action Plan from 11 to 13 June 2018 in Podgorica...
ODIHR and OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine co-organize annual trial monitoring meeting in Kyiv
Publishing date: 13 June 2018
Participants from eight OSCE field operations and 16 non-governmental organizations from across the OSCE region shared experiences and exchanged good practices at the 16th annual trial monitoring meeting. The event was organized in Kyiv by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine from 12 to 14 June 2018.
Freedom of expression and preventing hate speech focus of OSCE training seminar for journalists in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 13 June 2018
An OSCE Programme Office in Astana-supported seminar, co-organized with NGO Legal Media Centre, on the protection of freedom of expression and policies to counter hate speech on the Internet took place on 12 June 2018 in Kostanay, Kazakhstan...
OSCE helps Ukraine to improve control and risk management for prevention of major accidents involving dangerous substances
Publishing date: 12 June 2018
Ukraine’s challenges in modernizing its chemical regulatory system to meet international standard were discussed at an OSCE Project Co-ordinator-hosted workshop on 12 and 13 June in Kyiv...
ODIHR publishes manual on joint training on hate crime for police and prosecutors in Bulgaria
Publishing date: 12 June 2018
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) launched a new publication to help train police and prosecutors to address hate crimes in Bulgaria at a workshop organized in partnership with the Prosecutor’s Office and the National Institute of Justice on 12 June 2018 in Sofia.
ODIHR hosts exhibition in Warsaw celebrating prominent women of 19th and 20th-century Georgia
Publishing date: 12 June 2018
An exhibition of images and biographies of distinguished women of Georgia – painters, artists, writers and public figures – who redefined women’s roles in the 19th and 20th-century Georgian society opened at the headquarters of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in
Twenty-six women leaders complete OSCE Border Management Staff Course
Publishing date: 12 June 2018
The OSCE Border Management Staff College (BMSC) concluded its 21st Border Management Staff Course for Women Leaders on 8 June in Dushanbe.