News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Serbia, ODIHR and civil society partners to follow election of judges to High Judicial Council
Publishing date: 18 December 2015
BELGRADE, 18 December 2015 – The OSCE Mission to Serbia, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and civil society organization Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM) are to follow the election on 21 December of judges to Serbia’s High Judicial Council...
OSCE-supported conference on accessibility of public buildings for persons with disabilities organized in Budva
Publishing date: 18 December 2015
The accessibility of municipal public buildings for persons with disabilities was the focus of a two-day conference organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro in partnership with the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism and the Union of Municipalities of Montenegro on 16 and 17 December in Budva...
OSCE Office in Tajikistan supports study tour to Austria for officials from police-dog training centre
Publishing date: 18 December 2015
A five-day OSCE-supported study tour to Austria’s Federal Police Dog Training Centre in Bad Kreuzen by eight mid- and low-level officials from the K-9 police-dog training centre of Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry concluded on 18 December 2015...
States must work to guarantee the human rights of migrants, including in responses to current crisis, says OSCE/ODIHR Director Link
Publishing date: 18 December 2015
WARSAW, 18 December 2015 – States have an obligation to guarantee the human rights of migrants, including in their responses to the current refugee crisis in Europe, Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), stressed in a statement today, on International Migrants Day...
OSCE workshop focuses on income-generating activities to promote social rehabilitation of prisoners in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 18 December 2015
DUSHANBE, 18 December 2015 – A week-long workshop co-organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan and focusing on the re-socialization of prisoners through income-generating activities concluded today at the OSCE Office’s premises in Dushanbe...
Educational reform in focus of OSCE-organized visit by Turkmenistan representatives to the United Kingdom
Publishing date: 18 December 2015
LONDON, 18 December 2015 – Representatives of Turkmenistan’s Education Ministry, Mejlis (Parliament) and the National Institute of Democracy and Human Rights discussed international standards and best practices related to educational reforms during an OSCE-organized five-day study visit to London that concludes today...
OSCE issues Commentary to its Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings
Publishing date: 18 December 2015
A publication that clarifies the most challenging issues in the OSCE’s anti-trafficking Action Plan and its Addendums was issued on 17 December 2015 by the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Madina Jarbussynova...