News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Torture prevention and work of Poland’s national preventive mechanism focus of roundtable event organized by Polish Commissioner for Human Rights and OSCE/ODIHR
Publishing date: 22 May 2018
Preventing torture and the role of Poland’s national preventive mechanism was the focus of a roundtable event organized in Warsaw by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Republic of Poland on 22 May 2018.
OSCE Media Freedom Representative welcomes dropping of multi-million defamation claims against media outlet in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 21 May 2018
VIENNA, 21 May 2018 – Today the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, welcomed the dropping of defamation claims against the now-defunct Kyrgyz media outlet Zanoza.kg, and its journalists Dina Maslova and Naryn Ayyp, by the former president Almazbek Atambaev...
Specialized anti-trafficking training course for regional branches of police in Uzbekistan held in Urgench with OSCE support
Publishing date: 21 May 2018
The first in a series of training courses on anti-trafficking for investigators and operative agents of Uzbekistan police forces was held in Urgench from the 14 to 18 of May 2018...
Management of Contemporary Security Systems focus of OSCE seminar in Podgorica
Publishing date: 18 May 2018
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro and the Police Academy of Montenegro held a three-day seminar on the management of contemporary security systems, police leadership qualities, from 14 to 16 May 2018 in Podgorica...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan conducted international conference on training legal professionals
Publishing date: 18 May 2018
Sharing experiences in the field of in-service training and the training of legal professionals was the focus of an international conference organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan in co-operation with the Lawyer’s Training Centre of the Ministry of Justice on 17 and 18 May in Tashkent and Samarkand.
OSCE-supported conflict management workshop for parliamentary services on Montenegro completed in Podgorica
Publishing date: 18 May 2018
Conflict management for the parliamentary services of Montenegro in focus of a training workshop organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro was held on 17 and 18 May in Podgorica...
OSCE-supported workshop on anti-corruption review of draft legislation concluded in Bishkek
Publishing date: 18 May 2018
A three-day workshop on anti-corruption draft legislation review for 30 representatives of government institutions, law enforcement agencies, civil society and the business community of Kyrgyzstan concluded on 18 May 2018 in Bishkek...