News and press releases

Fletcher M. Burton, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, met on 20 November 2012 in Sarajevo with Milorad Novković, the President of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC) to discuss the longstanding co-operation between the OSCE Mission and the HJPC in promoting an independent, accountable, and efficient judiciary in the country...

DUBLIN, 21 November 2012 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore, today announced that Mongolia has acceded to the OSCE, becoming the Organization’s 57th participating State...

The role of the parliament in better regulating the lawmaking process was the focus of a workshop in Belgrade on 19 and 20 November 2012, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Constitution and Legislative Issues Committee of the National Assembly of Serbia...

BELGRADE, 20 November 2012 – High-level judicial officials and experts from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Slovenia shared experiences in applying ethical and disciplinary standards for judges and prosecutors at an OSCE conference that ended in Belgrade today...

YEREVAN, 20 November 2012 – Seven teams of students from Yerevan and Armenia’s regions will gather today and tomorrow in Yerevan for the final debate...

A series of training seminars for Ukraine’s administrative court judges, supported by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU), started on 20 November 2012 in Kamianets-Podilskyi in western Ukraine...

A series of seven seminars on combating trafficking in human beings and their judicial protection organized by the OSCE Centre in Astana concluded on 20 November 2012...