News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE holds training course on combating sexual violence in Armenia
Publishing date: 4 May 2006
YEREVAN, 4 May 2006- Preventing and prosecuting sexual crimes was the focus of a training course for Armenian prosecutors and investigators that ended today in Yerevan. The two-day event was organized by the OSCE Office...
OSCE Office begins training course to monitor places of detention in Armenia
Publishing date: 26 April 2006
YEREVAN, 26 April 2006- A four-day training course to increase the professional capacity of public monitoring groups to monitor places of detention started today in Tsakhkadzor in Armenia. The course, organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan together...
OSCE/ODIHR deploys team to observe partial repeat of parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 25 April 2006
WARSAW/BAKU, 25 April 2006- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has established a Limited Election Observation Mission in Baku in advance of repeat parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, being held on 13 May in 10 of...
OSCE/ODIHR report on Uzbekistan trials calls for verdicts on 15 Andijan defendants to be set aside
Publishing date: 24 April 2006
WARSAW, 23 April 2006- In a report released today, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, ODIHR, raises concerns regarding violations of the right to a fair trial in Uzbekistan. The report is based on monitoring of the trials...
OSCE meeting in Vienna calls on States to increase support for human rights defenders
Publishing date: 31 March 2006
VIENNA, 31 March 2006- A call for increased support for human rights defenders was one of the main conclusions of a two-day OSCE conference on the challenges faced by human rights defenders, which concluded in Vienna today...
Ukrainian elections free and fair, consolidating democratic breakthrough
Publishing date: 27 March 2006
KYIV, 27 March 2006- The 26 March parliamentary elections in Ukraine further consolidated the breakthrough in the conduct of a democratic election process that began less than a year and a half ago. Overall, fundamental civil and political rights...
International observers of Ukraine parliamentary elections to hold press conference Monday in Kyiv
Publishing date: 26 March 2006
KYIV, 25 March 2006- The International Election Observation Mission deployed to monitor the Ukrainian parliamentary elections on 26 March, will announce its preliminary findings and conclusions at a press conference at 13:30 on Monday, 27 March at...