News and press releases

SARAJEVO, 4 July 2014- Eight young people from Bosnia and Herzegovina have been selected as members of the newly-established Youth Advisory Group at the OSCE Mission to the country, and today held their first meeting with Mission staff in Sarajevo...

The role of political parties in parliaments and the separation between parties and the state were the focus of an expert seminar organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw on 1 and 2 July 2014.

BAKU, 2 July 2014 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has adopted the Baku Declaration, lending political support to wide-ranging policy recommendations for the OSCE and its 57 participating States in the fields of political affairs and security, economics, the environment and human rights...

WARSAW, 2 July 2014 – Michael Georg Link of Germany assumed his new duties on Tuesday as director of the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)...

BERN, 30 June 2014- OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, today expressed his gratitude to Ambassador Janez Lenarčič of Slovenia, the outgoing Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), for his work over the last six years...

ULAANBAATAR, 27 June 2014 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek funded a study visit to the Mongolian capital on 24 to 27 June 2014 of fifteen representatives from Kyrgyzstan’s Parliament, the Central Election Commission, the State Registration Service, the President’s Office, the Foreign Ministry and other key state agencies to familiarize participants with the population registration system and use of biometric data in Mongolia...

Evaluating the performance of judges to help improve their skills was the focus of a roundtable event co-organized by OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Mission to Moldova on 27 June 2014 in Chisinau.