News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Skopje promotes training programme for municipal councillors
Publishing date: 21 September 2018
Representatives of twenty municipal councils were introduced to an the OSCE training programme designed to promote democratic governance through improved work of local elected officials during the promotional events that took place in Ohrid and Skopje on 19, 20 and 21 September.
High-level OSCE PA participation at Europe’s largest human rights conference
Publishing date: 21 September 2018
COPENHAGEN, 21 September 2018 – Several leaders of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly have actively participated over the past two weeks in the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and the Italian OSCE Chairmanship, speaking at working sessions on democracy, fundamental freedoms, rights of migrants, human trafficking, and freedom of the media...
OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe holds training course on emergency first aid for border service staff
Publishing date: 21 September 2018
A five-day training course on emergency first aid concluded on 21 September 2018 at the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe...
OSCE media freedom representative expresses his condolences following tragic death of journalist in Germany
Publishing date: 20 September 2018
VIENNA, 20 September 2018 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir today expressed his condolences following the news of a tragic death of a young journalist, who died yesterday while filming a police operation at a protest near Aachen in Germany...
OSCE supports capacity building of Tajik lawyers
Publishing date: 20 September 2018
Two OSCE-supported training courses for lawyers on development of professional competences and moral compensation for victims of torture and their relatives concluded on 18 September 2018 in Tajikistan. The first course was conducted on 14 and 15 September in Dushanbe, and the second was held on 17 and 18 September 2018 in the town of Guliston.
Victim support must be at the centre of an effective response to hate crime, say participants at OSCE/ODIHR event
Publishing date: 20 September 2018
Techniques to improve states’ support for victims of hate crime were the focus of an event organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 20 September in Warsaw on the margins of the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. The discussions focused on how
Improving gender mainstreaming migration policies and sex-disaggregated data essential to promoting the rights of women migrants, say gender equality and migration experts
Publishing date: 20 September 2018
Experts and practitioners on gender equality and migration discussed the challenges facing women migrants and good practices to promote their rights at a side event organized by the OSCE Gender Section during the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 18 September 2018.