News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Commitments apply equally to all states, OSCE rights chief tells US Helsinki Commission
Publishing date: 17 September 2008
WASHINGTON, D.C., 17 September 2008- The OSCE's far-reaching human rights and democracy commitments apply equally to all participating States, and progress in meeting these standards must be measured with the same yardstick across the entire region...
OSCE meeting to discuss criminal justice reform in Central Asia
Publishing date: 17 September 2008
ASTANA, 17 September 2008- Some 50 high-level criminal justice professionals and experts from across Central Asia will discuss the reform of the criminal justice systems in the countries of the region at a meeting that opened in Zerenda today...
OSCE's human rights and democracy office joins statement on the first annual International Day of Democracy
Publishing date: 15 September 2008
WARSAW, 15 September 2008- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and seven other organizations active in the field of promoting democracy, made the following statement on the occasion of today's International Day of Democracy...
OSCE trains Armenian human rights defenders on monitoring freedom of assembly
Publishing date: 15 September 2008
YEREVAN, 15 September 2008- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights launched a four-day training course today for Armenian human rights defenders on how to monitor and report on the freedom of assembly...
Time to open new chapter in relations, OSCE human rights chief tells Russian officials
Publishing date: 9 September 2008
MOSCOW, 9 September 2008- The director of the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Ambassador Janez Lenarcic, today called for a new chapter to be opened in the relations between his office and the Russian...
ODIHR begins monitoring of Azerbaijan's presidential election
Publishing date: 4 September 2008
BAKU, 4 September 2008- Following an invitation from Azerbaijan's Government, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) this week deployed an election observation mission to observe the 15 October presidential election...
ODIHR, Bosnia and Herzegovina sign agreement on combating hate crime
Publishing date: 1 September 2008
SARAJEVO, 1 September 2008- The OSCE's human-rights body, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, signed a memorandum of agreement today with Bosnia and Herzegovina's Ministry of Security...