News and press releases

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...

VIENNA, 18 December 2012 – Reconciliation is key to overcoming the lack of trust and animosity with the aim to facilitate progress towards a Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian Security community in the OSCE region, said participants at an OSCE workshop in Vienna today...

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...

CHERNIVTSI, Ukraine, 17 December 2012- Two automated stations to monitor the water level in the Ukrainian part of the Dniester River basin opened in Western Ukraine today with support from the OSCE...

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)...