News and press releases

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro and the Human and Minority Rights Ministry, aiming to strengthen the co-operation in the area of gender equality, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with municipalities of Andrijevica, Gusinje, Petnjica and Plav on 2 October 2015 in Plav...

AKTAU, Kazakhstan, 2 October 2015 –Applying gender-mainstreaming principles in politics and local self-governance, as well as promoting good governance, transparency and accountability in rural communities and small towns were focus of the OSCE-supported training seminar that took place today in Aktau, Kazakhstan...

NEW YORK CITY, 28 September 2015 A good practices document on women and countering violent extremism prepared by the OSCE was adopted on 27 September today by the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) as non-binding guidance to assist governments in mainstreaming gender into policies and measures to counter violent extremism (CVE).

The OSCE Mission to Moldova organized the first in a series of three debate tournaments for 35 selected high school students from Bender, Cahul, Ceadîr-Lunga, Comrat, Taraclia, Tiraspol and Vulcănești. During the event, which took place on 26 September 2015 in Comrat, the young participants deliberated on the positive impact of increasing the number of women in politics...

The prevention of early forced marriages was the topic of a workshop organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro on 22 September 2015...

The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, in co-operation with the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) Gender Centre and the Network of Women Police Officers, concluded on 1 September 2015 the second out of ten training courses on implementation of the Law on Protection from Domestic Violence and the use of the domestic violence database...

A “Follow us” initiative on dialogue of prominent women from Belgrade and Pristina was promoted at the Western Balkans Summit on 27 August 2015 in Vienna...