News and press releases

BAKU, 26 April 2012 – A workshop organized by the OSCE Office in Baku and the Ombudsman Office of Azerbaijan on detention monitoring and reporting on cases of torture under national preventive mechanisms (NPMs) started today...

YEREVAN, 25 April 2012 – The Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, Ambassador Andrey Sorokin, and the Head of the Armenian Central Electoral Commission (CEC), Tigran Mukuchyan, signed a long-term co-operation agreement today on promoting efficient election administration, including through an EU-funded project on supporting democratic elections in Armenia, as well as other international election-related efforts...

TASHKENT, 25 April 2012 – A three-day training seminar organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan on the criminal justice response to domestic violence began in Tashkent today...

DUBLIN, BRUSSELS, GENEVA, 25 April 2012 – The Co-Chairs of the Geneva International Discussions note with concern that the 36th meeting of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) did not take place in Gali on 24 April 2012...

The OSCE Mission to Skopje, in co-operation with the Intelligence Academy of the Turkish National Police are organizing training for 18 police officers from the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence of the country’s Interior Ministry from 23-27 April 2012...

A support and assistance centre for victims of domestic violence opened in Ashgabat in April 2012 with support from the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat...

ASHGABAT, 23 April 2012 – The OSCE Centre in Ashgabat presented an article-by-article commentary on the Criminal Procedure Code of Turkmenistan in Ashgabat today...