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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Economic component of Armenia’s foreign policy focus of OSCE-supported parliamentary hearings
Publishing date: 13 December 2016
Parliamentary hearings on the economic component of Armenia’s foreign policy were held on 9 December 2016 in Yerevan with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan...
OSCE Office in Tajikistan trains the trainers of political parties on mentoring skills
Publishing date: 13 December 2016
A five-day training course on mentoring for trainers of Tajik political party representatives, with the aim of further advancing women’s participation in the political life, concluded on 9 December 2016. The event, organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan, concluded with the drafting of action plans...
OSCE Supports Workshop on Draft Analysis of Gender Mainstreaming Process at Local Level
Publishing date: 13 December 2016
OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized a workshop for municipal gender focal points in Montenegro on 8 and 9 December 2016 in Podgorica. The event provided an opportunity for representatives of municipalities, civil sector and the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights to meet and discuss the draft of the analysis on gender mainstreaming at the local level...
Freedom of expression on the Internet in focus of OSCE-supported annual Youth Legal Forum in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 12 December 2016
The annual OSCE-supported Youth Legal Forum concluded on 10 December 2016 at the Kazakh Humanities and Law University (KAZGUU) in Astana. This year’s two-day event focused on the limits to restricting freedom of expression and distribution of information on the Internet, in recognition of the International Human Rights Day...
Competitive elections follow cross-party co-operation to end political crisis, though need for sustainable reforms remains, international election observers say in Skopje
Publishing date: 12 December 2016
SKOPJE, 12 December 2016 – The 11 December parliamentary elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia were competitive and an essential step in resolving two years of deep political crisis, but took place in an environment characterized by widespread public mistrust in institutions and the political establishment, international election observers concluded in a preliminary statement released today...
Realistic interim measures needed to stem the deterioration of co-operative security in Europe, report by OSCE-related network of think tanks argues
Publishing date: 9 December 2016
“In the wake of the current confrontation between Russia and the West, will the nations of Europe govern their interactions by rules and principles, as the signatories of the Helsinki Final Act hoped, or by the conjuncture or clash of national interests?” This was the leading question of a study conducted by the OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions presented at a side event of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Hamburg on 8 December 2016.
Police in Kazakhstan learn about psychological profiling techniques at OSCE training seminar
Publishing date: 9 December 2016