News and press releases

The sixth and concluding OSCE-supported seminar in a series for judges on protecting the rights of child victims of human trafficking took place on 19 October 2016 in Astana, Kazakhstan...

Challenges and good practices in preventing sexual and gender-based violence in criminal justice facilities were the focus of a two-day meeting of practitioners in the OSCE region on 17 and 18 October 2016 in Warsaw. The event was organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human

Respecting human rights when conducting counter-terrorism investigations was the focus of an OSCE training session for law enforcement officers held in Tirana, Albania, on 17 and 18 October 2016. Organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Strategic

The OSCE Programme Office in Astana held its second training seminar in 2016 on anti-torture standards for some 30 judges from regional courts on 17 October 2016...

Some 16 representatives of the Parliamentary services and secretaries of the Montenegrin Parliament Committees successfully completed the last in a series of an OSCE-supported programme, aimed at strengthening their leadership, interpersonal and communication skills, from 13 to 14 October 2015 in Podgorica...

Relations between the judiciary and the media, international standards on freedom of speech, the legal basis and particularity of defamation cases, as well as media access to courts were the focus of an OSCE-supported workshop for some 35 judges, lawyers and journalists which concluded on 15 October 2016 in Dushanbe...

The first OSCE region annual meeting to focus on national prevention mechanisms (NPMs) on torture, organized by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in co-operation with the Geneva-based Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT), was held in Vienna on 13 and 14