News and press releases

Representatives from Jewish communities and civil society in the OSCE region met in Warsaw to share good practices in collecting data on anti-Semitic hate crimes, as well as effective responses, during a workshop organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 18 December 2012...

The role of judges, prosecutors and law-enforcement agencies in combating hate crimes was the focus of a roundtable discussion organized by the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and supported by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 17 December 2012...

The official website of the Information Disputes Council (IDC), an extra-judicial body publishing opinions or statements on and offering out-of-court solutions to freedom of expression related disputes, as well as a publication comprising IDC opinions were presented on 17 December 2012 in Yerevan...

As part of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek’s support to the co-operation between state bodies, human rights organizations and the international community in addressing torture prevention in places of detention, the Centre, the Ombudsman, relevant governmental institutions of the Kyrgyz Republic and civil society organizations signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 17 December 2012 in Bishkek...

An OSCE-supported workshop on long-term sustainability of humanitarian de-mining in Tajikistan was organized on 14 December 2012 at the Defence Ministry in Dushanbe...

A seminar for administrative-court judges on the judicial review of administrative disputes started on 17 December 2012 in Kyiv with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU)...

The role of public servants in enforcing professional integrity was the topic of an anti-corruption training seminar held in Przno by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro from 13 to 14 December 2012...