News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Children’s rights need better protection in Ukraine’s criminal justice system, finds OSCE-supported report
Publishing date: 1 June 2021
Multiple interrogations, lack of psychological support, lengthy proceedings, these are just a few of the problems children face in Ukraine’s criminal justice system according to a new OSCE-supported report presented on 1 June 2021.
Study says OSCE training helps to increase use of international human rights protection instruments by judges in Ukraine
Publishing date: 21 August 2018
Ukrainian judges who were trained by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator to apply the European Convention on Human Rights and the case law of the European Court in their decisions, increased their use of these instruments in their work by more than one third. Moreover, eight out of ten justices who never referred to the Convention in their practice started doing so after the training. Between 2014 and 2017, more than 6000 judges participated in training workshops organized by the OSCE in partnership with the National School of Judges.
OSCE Project Co-ordinator and Council of Europe Office in Ukraine consolidate efforts to promote reforms in key areas
Publishing date: 4 December 2017
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and the Council of Europe Office in Ukraine agreed on 4 December 2017 to strengthen co-operation and co-ordination in promoting the rule of law and human rights, critical for the stable and democratic future of the country...
Ukraine’s Constitutional Court abolishes regulations limiting religious assemblies following OSCE advice and assistance
Publishing date: 14 September 2016
KYIV, 14 September 2016- Legal provisions requiring prior permission from authorities for religious gatherings are not compliant with the country’s basic law, reads a decision of Ukraine’s Constitutional Court announced on Tuesday, 13 September 2016 in Kyiv...
OSCE conducts seminar for judges from relocated administrative courts in Eastern Ukraine on human rights protection
Publishing date: 3 December 2015
An OSCE-supported two-day seminar on the protection of human rights and application of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for 60 judges working in the relocated administrative courts from Donetsk and Luhansk regions concluded in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, today 3 December 2015....
OSCE supports international forum in Ukraine on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights
Publishing date: 27 November 2015
The fourth international forum on the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for legal professionals, co-organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, was held on 27 November 2015 in Lviv...
OSCE helps to develop sustainable education system for judges
Publishing date: 7 September 2015
Capacity-building seminar for judges-developers of educational courses and programs on application of the European Convention on Human Rights (Convention) and the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (Court) was held on 27-29 August in Truskavets, a town in Lviv region, western Ukraine...