News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Dialogue Academy alumni meet in Belgrade
Publishing date: 12 April 2016
Twenty young women, alumni of the OSCE Dialogue Academy, met in Belgrade from 6 to 8 April 2016, to continue co-operation and agree on joint projects for 2016...
OSCE supports working visit to Albania for Tajik women politicians
Publishing date: 12 April 2016
As part of the project on women’s political empowerment and in order to unite the women politicians from Tajikistan and Albania in their aspirations to become leaders, the OSCE Office in Tajikistan organized and supported a working visit to Albania for eight Tajik women politicians from 2 to 9 April 2016...
Human rights at police detention centres focus of OSCE-supported workshop in Armenia
Publishing date: 12 April 2016
A two-day workshop aimed to promote and enhance protection of human rights of persons in detention opened on 12 April 2016 in Dilijan, Armenia. The workshop is organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan in co-operation with the Police and Public Monitoring Group for Police Detention Centres...
End impunity for crimes against journalists, OSCE representative says on 17th anniversary of murder of journalist in Serbia
Publishing date: 11 April 2016
VIENNA, 11 April 2016 – On the 17th anniversary of the murder of prominent journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today called on the government of Serbia to end impunity for crimes committed against journalists...
OSCE field operations in Tajikistan and Albania work together to support women’s participation in political life
Publishing date: 8 April 2016
A group of eight women politicians from all registered political parties in Tajikistan, including a member of parliament, paid a visit to Albania from 2 to 8 April 2016 to strengthen inter-regional co-operation and share experiences on empowering women in political life. The visit was jointly organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan and the OSCE Presence in Albania...
OSCE/ODIHR shares trial monitoring expertise with NGO representatives from Eastern Europe and South Caucasus at training event in Ukraine
Publishing date: 8 April 2016
The fundamentals of trial monitoring were the focus of a training event organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), in co-operation with the Educational Human Rights House, from 6 to 8 April 2016 in Chernihiv, Ukraine. Bringing together 26 lawyers representing
OSCE participating States discuss recent escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone
Publishing date: 5 April 2016
VIENNA, 5 April 2016- At a special meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna, Ambassador James Warlick, representing the three Co-Chairs of the Minsk Group, and the Personal Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, informed the 57 OSCE participating States about recent developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.