News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Journalists should not be detained for reporting on issues of public interest, says OSCE Representative Désir after arrest of 6 journalists in Turkey
Publishing date: 9 March 2020
VIENNA, 9 March 2020 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, expressed his strong concern today over the detention of several journalists in Turkey...
OSCE concludes project on strengthening the capacities of criminal justice practitioners to combat gender-based violence in Eastern Europe
Publishing date: 9 March 2020
The closing conference of the OSCE project “Effective Criminal Justice Strategies and Practices to Combat Gender-based Violence in Eastern Europe” was held in Vienna on 5 and 6 March 2020. The project was implemented over the past two years in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania...
OSCE promotes active role of Ukraine’s law enforcers in supporting women who have experienced violence
Publishing date: 6 March 2020
Ahead of International Women’s Day, the OSCE will have dispatched two-thousand posters highlighting the need to stop violence against women to police stations all over Ukraine by 6 March 2020. The posters stress the important role that the police play in supporting and protecting women who have experienced violence. The posters were produced as part of the “End the Silence” awareness-raising campaign which was implemented by the OSCE Secretariat’s Gender Section and supported by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and the country’s National Police.
Greater representation of women in local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina the focus of OSCE co-organized conference
Publishing date: 6 March 2020
The conference “More Than Quota: Towards Greater Representation of Women in Local Elections 2020” concluded today in Sarajevo. It was organized by Westminster Foundation for Democracy and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), in partnership with the Gender Equality Commission of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH on the occasion of International Women’s Day...
OSCE Mission to Serbia supports capacity of the police to fight corruption
Publishing date: 6 March 2020
On the second anniversary of Serbia’s Interior Ministry’s Anti-Corruption Department, held in Belgrade on 6 March 2020, ten Serbian police officers received diplomas after successfully completing internationally accredited courses in financial crime forensics...
OSCE assists with Uzbekistan’s attendance at the Hague Conference on Private Property Law
Publishing date: 5 March 2020
With support of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, a delegation of Uzbek senior government officials participated at the Council on General Affairs and Policy (CGAP) of the Hague Conference on Private Property Law (HCCH) held in The Hague from 3 to 6 March, 2020.
President of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration Emmanuel Decaux addresses Permanent Council
Publishing date: 4 March 2020
President of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration Professor Emmanuel Decaux addressed the OSCE Permanent Council on 27 February 2020, where he invited signatory and third-party States to join the 34 States that are currently party to the Convention on Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE...