News and press releases

TASHKENT, 25 November 2019 –The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today opened an election observation mission for the 22 December parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan. The deployment follows an invitation from the country’s authorities.

VIENNA, 22 November 2019 – How best to ensure the full enjoyment of the freedom of peaceful assembly by people in the OSCE area and beyond, including through participating States’ full implementation of existing OSCE commitments was the focus of the third Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting held under the auspices of Slovakia’s 2019 OSCE Chairmanship. The two-day meeting concluded today in Vienna...

New trends in elections and international best practices for observing them were the topics of a high-level panel discussion during an annual meeting on the implementation of the Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation, which was hosted by the OSCE Office for Democratic

Following elections held in Ukraine in 2019, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has published reports on the two-round presidential election and the early parliamentary elections.

WARSAW, 20 November 2019 – Thirty years after the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the head of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) calls on governments to take greater responsibility for the wellbeing of children living in their countries, wherever they come from and however long they will be there...

MINSK, 18 November 2019 – Fundamental freedoms were disregarded and the integrity of the election process was not adequately safeguarded in the early parliamentary elections in Belarus even as the number of registered candidates increased, international observers concluded in a preliminary statement published today...

WARSAW, 15 November 2019 – Marking the International Day for Tolerance on 16 November with the publication of its annual hate crime dataset, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) urges countries to implement hate crime legislation that has existed on their law books for many years...