News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Special Representative on Gender Issues visits Albania, encourages improvement in implementation of gender-related commitments
Publishing date: 4 April 2014
TIRANA, 4 April 2014 – Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Gender Issues June Zeitlin and ODIHR Senior Adviser on Roma and Sinti issues Mirjam Karoly paid a three-day country visit to Albania from 2 to 4 April...
OSCE partners with gender institutions to further promote gender equality in BiH
Publishing date: 1 April 2014
The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina signed a memorandum of understanding on 1 April 2014 in Sarajevo with the BiH Gender Equality Agency to support a project on promoting gender equality among political parties and increasing the visibility and skills of women candidates...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro trains municipal workers on gender budgeting
Publishing date: 1 April 2014
The strategies and benefits of effective gender budgeting were highlighted at a training course in Podgorica on 31 March and 1 April 2014 for gender focal points from municipal authorities across Montenegro...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro trains municipal workers on gender budgeting
Publishing date: 1 April 2014
The strategies and benefits of effective gender budgeting were highlighted at a training course in Podgorica on 31 March and 1 April 2014 for gender focal points from municipal authorities across Montenegro...
OSCE launches seminar series on preventing domestic violence in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 27 March 2014
ASTANA, 27 March 2014 – A two-day training seminar for police inspectors and officers on trends and challenges in preventing domestic violence, co-organized by the OSCE Centre with the Interior Ministry of Kazakhstan, began today in Astana...
OSCE presents survey on awareness, implementation of gender equality law in Montenegrin institutions
Publishing date: 24 March 2014
A survey on the awareness and implementation in Montenegrin institutions of the Law on Gender Equality was presented at a session of the Parliamentary Committee for Gender Equality on 21 March 2014. The research was prepared by the Committee in co-operation with the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights and the UNDP Office in Montenegro...
OSCE Senior Gender Advisor highlights need to engage men to achieve gender equality at UN event in New York
Publishing date: 14 March 2014
The OSCE’s Senior Gender Advisor, Ambassador Miroslava Beham, highlighted the need to actively engage men to achieve gender equality, during the 58th annual session of the Commission on the Status of Women on 10 to 14 March 2014 at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York...