News and press releases

YEREVAN, 3 April 2017 – The 2 April parliamentary elections in Armenia were well administered and fundamental freedoms were generally respected. Despite welcomed reforms of the legal framework and the introduction of new technologies to reduce electoral irregularities, the elections were tainted by credible information about vote-buying, and pressure on civil servants and employees of private companies, international observers concluded in a preliminary statement released today. This contributed to an overall lack of public confidence and trust in the elections, the statement says...

Twenty one officers from the Tajik border troops, ranked from warrant officer to major and mainly coming from border detachments at the Tajik-Afghan and Tajik-Kyrgyz borders, successfully completed a three-week training-of-trainers course on 31 March 2017. The event was organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...

The second in a series of OSCE-supported five-day training courses on risk profiling at border checkpoints to assist in countering transnational threats concluded in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 31 March 2017...

An independent and efficient judiciary as a protector of citizens’ rights and freedoms was the focus of a conference organized to mark the Day of the Judiciary on 31 March 2017 in Skopje by the OSCE Mission and the Association of Judges...

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo on 31 March 2017 launched the Media Fellowship, an annual initiative, aimed at building the capacities of young journalists and establishing a network of fellows from different communities...

A two-day training course on Gender Action Plans and gender responsive budgeting for women and men politicians concluded on 29 March 2017 at the OSCE Office in Tajikistan in Dushanbe...

Elections experts from ODIHR met with electoral stakeholders in Warsaw on 28 March to present the final report of ODIHR’s election assessment mission for the 25 October 2015 parliamentary elections in Poland.