News and press releases

The use of online technologies for visa facilitation was the focus of a regional expert roundtable meeting organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), in co-operation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, on 10 and 11 June 2015 in Istanbul.

On 5 and 6 June 2015, the OSCE Mission to Moldova held a seminar for civil society representatives from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River. The event took place in Vadul lui Vodă, a town by the river, and provided participants with the opportunity to develop their advocacy and awareness-raising skills in order to tackle local-level problems and promote social change in their communities...

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo and the OSCE Mission to Serbia will organize a Summer Dialogue Academy 2015 as part of the “Follow Us” initiative, which gathers prominent women from Belgrade and Prishtinë/Pristina...

The lawmaking process in Georgia should be more flexible, transparent and inclusive, said an assessment report prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and presented at a meeting organized jointly with the Parliament of Georgia in Tbilisi, on 9 June 2015.

WARSAW, 3 June 2015- Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and Valeriya Lutkovska, Ukraine’s Human Rights Commissioner, signed an agreement in Warsaw today for greater co-operation between ODIHR and Lutkovska’s office in a broad range of activities in Ukraine, including the promotion of tolerance and gender equality and building greater capacity to monitor the protection and promotion of human rights...

Some 30 youth representatives and activists from South-East Europe discussed ways to promote the political participation of youth in the OSCE region, including through new mechanisms such as social media, at a seminar organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), in co-operation with the OSCE Mission to Serbia, and with the support of the Serbian OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office, in Belgrade on 2 June 2015.

A meeting for war crimes investigators in South-Eastern Europe organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and supported by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina on 25 May 2015 in Sarajevo provided an opportunity for investigators to exchange experiences...