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How gender shape people’s experiences of climate change and security risks was in focus at the “Resilient Futures: Linking Climate, Gender and Security” event organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA) on 3 November 2025 in Vienna. The event featured findings of a research study on the gendered dimensions of climate-related security risks in the OSCE area conducted by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and commissioned by the OSCE.

ISTANBUL, 17 November 2025 – Today, OSCE Secretary General, Feridun H. Sinirlioğlu addressed the 23rd Autumn Meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, hosted in Istanbul, Türkiye. In his remarks, the Secretary General emphasized the urgent need to revitalize multilateralism and rebuild meaningful security dialogue to strengthen safety and security across the OSCE region and beyond.

The OSCE Mission to Serbia and the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality marked the 10th anniversary of the Journalism Award for Tolerance with the premiere of a 13-minute documentary film, Voices of Equality, in Belgrade today. The film highlights some of the stories of more than 90

WARSAW, 17 November 2025 – To ensure an effective response to hate crime and meaningful access to justice for victims, there is an ever more urgent need to develop systematic and long-term training programmes for police and prosecutors across the OSCE region that also involve targeted communities, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) said today on launching its annual hate crime report on the occasion of the International Day for Tolerance.

On 11 November, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan, with the support of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, sponsored an international conference in Tashkent on constitutional reforms to mark the 30th anniversary of the institution. Titled “Constitutional Reforms and

From 11 to 13 November, the OSCE Secretariat together with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) jointly organized an in-person training course in Vienna for 26 members of the OSCE Pool of Young Experts on professional competencies in the field of peace and security with a focus on negotiations.

Over ninety law students including faculty from Turkmenistan’s institutions of higher education learnt international human rights standards during pre-trial stages of criminal proceedings and investigations at an OSCE-organized lecture course that took place from 10 to 14 November 2025 in Ashgabat.