News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE-supported regional inter-parliamentary meeting in Bishkek discusses monitoring and evaluation mechanisms
Publishing date: 15 June 2016
BISHKEK, 15 June 2016 – A two-day OSCE-supported regional inter-parliamentary meeting on monitoring and evaluation mechanisms that brought together 20 parliamentarians from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, and Tajikistan concluded today in Bishkek. High-level government officials, independent experts, representatives of civil society, international organizations, academia and mass media also attended the event...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro and Montenegrin parliament hosted meeting of Secretaries General of Western Balkans parliaments
Publishing date: 3 June 2016
Secretaries General and Deputy Secretaries General of Western Balkans parliaments, heads of human resources and information and communications technology departments, legal advisors and representatives of OSCE Missions in the region took part in a meeting on strategic and annual planning in parliaments in Podgorica, Montenegro on 1 and 2 June 2016...
OSCE facilitates consolidation workshop on Regulatory Reform Roadmap for Armenia
Publishing date: 27 May 2016
The finalization of a Regulatory Reform Roadmap for Armenia was the focus of a workshop co-organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR), the Ministry of Justice of Armenia and the OSCE Office in Yerevan on 27 and 28 May 2016 in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia.
ODIHR Director welcomes rejection of draft NGO law in Kyrgyz Republic
Publishing date: 14 May 2016
WARSAW, 14 May 2016 Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), today welcomed Thursday’s rejection on third reading by the Jogorku Kenesh, Kyrgyzstan’s parliament, of draft legislation that would have imposed unnecessarily cumbersome reporting requirements for non-governmental organizations (NGOs)...
Creating platforms for women’s lobbying strengthens democracies, say panelists at OSCE/ODIHR event in Warsaw
Publishing date: 13 May 2016
Strengthening women’s lobbying in public and political life in the OSCE region was the focus of a panel discussion in Warsaw on 13 May 2016, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in co-operation with the Polish Congress of Women. The event was organized as part of the 8th Annual Congress of Women, which brought together some 5,000 women from Poland and across Europe.
OSCE/ODIHR marks the 10th anniversary of its Panel of Experts on the Freedom of Peaceful Assembly
Publishing date: 28 April 2016
OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 28 April 2016 celebrated the 10th anniversary of the inaugural meeting of its Panel of Experts on the Freedom of Peaceful Assembly.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Steinmeier stresses importance of ODIHR’s work during visit to headquarters in Warsaw
Publishing date: 19 April 2016
WARSAW, 19 April 2016 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier, today visited the headquarters of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), in the context of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Office...