News and press releases

Police agencies should do more to provide systemic and effective human rights education for its personnel, said participants at a meeting held in Istanbul by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Strategic Police Matters Unit (SPMU) of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, with the support of the Turkish National Police, on 10 and 11 December 2012...

Good practices for parliamentary bodies in promoting gender equality and advancing women’s interests in national legislatures were the focus of a workshop held in Vienna by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), with the support of the Austrian Parliament and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly on 10 and 11 December 2012...

A rock concert, a film festival on human rights and digital age, a youth debate and a moot court competition were among the OSCE-supported events held on 10 and 11 December 2012 in Yerevan and Vanadzor to mark International Human Rights Day...

Lessons learned during the implementation of voter-awareness activities supported by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) in the run-up to the 2012 parliamentary elections in the country were discussed at a conference in Kyiv on 11 December 2012...

The OSCE Office in Tajikistan handed over on 8 December 2012 equipment and educational material for a training centre to be set up to train officers of Tajikistan’s Agency for State Financial Control and Fight against Corruption...

Draft amendments to the Montenegrin Criminal Code were presented to representatives of relevant institutions at a roundtable discussion held on 10 December 2012 in Podgorica...

The OSCE Centre in Astana supported a roundtable meeting on sexual harassment on 7 December 2012 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...