News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports workshop on open budget data for achieving sustainable development goals
Publishing date: 17 September 2019
An OSCE-supported workshop on open budget data for the Sustainable Development Goals concluded on 13 September 2019 in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.
Remembering the peaceful revolutions of 1989 to protect our democracies for the future: OSCE annual human rights conference
Publishing date: 16 September 2019
WARSAW, 16 September 2019 – The velvet revolutions that swept Central Eastern Europe 30 years ago gave rise to a time of optimism that we need to recapture as threats to our democracies multiply, key speakers stressed as the annual human rights conference* hosted by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) opened in Warsaw today.
OSCE supports training seminar for defence lawyers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 13 September 2019
An OSCE-supported training seminar for representatives of the legal profession on the qualified legal protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms concluded on 14 September 2019 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
Presidents of courts discuss international standards for judicial administration at ODIHR seminar in Minsk
Publishing date: 13 September 2019
International rule of law standards related to the court management and independence of the judiciary were the topic of a training seminar organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) together with Belarusian judicial institutions on 13 September 2019 in Minsk.
Officials and experts deliver strong message at high-level Bratislava conference: security sector governance and reform can prevent conflict, and is worth investing in
Publishing date: 9 September 2019
BRATISLAVA, 9 September 2019 – Some 160 representatives, policy makers and national security advisers from OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation, as well as experts and practitioners from international and regional organizations and academia, attended today in Bratislava the fourth thematic conference of the 2019 Slovak OSCE Chair, which focused on Security Sector Governance and Reform (SSG/R). In particular, the conference sought to unpack the role of SSG/R in preventing conflict, sustaining peace and promoting comprehensive security for all.
Media Advisory: Election observers of Poland’s parliamentary elections to hold opening press conference on Tuesday
Publishing date: 9 September 2019
• An opening press conference by the ODIHR observers to the parliamentary elections in Poland. • An introduction to the role of the mission in the elections and its planned activities. • The press conference is open to all and no accreditation is required to enter, but only questions from journalists will be taken. • English-Polish interpretation will be provided...
Combatting trafficking in human beings focus of OSCE-supported training seminar in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 9 September 2019
An OSCE-supported training seminar on combatting human trafficking concluded on 6 September 2019 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Some 28 representatives of the flag carrier “Air Astana” and the Education Centres of the Committee of Civil Aviation of the Republic of Kazakhstan from the cities of Nur-Sultan, Almaty, Aktau and Shymkent participated in the event.