News and press releases

The OSCE Mission to Moldova supported an exposure visit for a group of 16 social service providers to a centre for counselling domestic violence aggressors in the district of Drochia, in the north of Moldova on 23 and 24 July 2019. The service providers from the left bank of the Dniester/Nistru River and the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia had an opportunity to learn from the unique experience of the Drochia Centre, which has pioneered working with both domestic violence perpetrators and survivors...

A new web-based course on combating domestic violence, created by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and the online education platform EdEra, is open for users starting from 18 July 2019. The course for the general public aims at promoting awareness among Ukrainians of what domestic violence is and how it can be dealt with...

Empowering, motivating and involving women in the homestay tourism business was the focus of a three-day training course for 15 women from remote areas of Tajikistan, which concluded on 10 July 2019 in Dushanbe...

PODGORICA, 8 July 2019 – The OSCE Mission in Montenegro and the OSCE Gender Section presented today the results of an OSCE survey that shows that social norms and attitudes contribute to gender inequality and violence against women, in the premises of the parliament during the 35th session of the Gender Equality Committee. The survey also showed that there is a sound legal framework for combating violence against women in Montenegro, but that it needs to be updated and fully implemented.

Vienna, 5 July 2019 – Including women at all stages of the planning and decision-making processes in environmental security enables more effective and sustainable responses to the challenges we face, stressed participants at today’s High-Level Discussion on Promoting the Role of Women in Addressing Environment and Security Challenges.

An OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan-supported Gender Economics International Summer School was conducted from 2 to 6 July 2019 in Tashkent for some 35 young employees of the public sector and non-governmental organizations from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan working on issues of women's empowerment and gender equality...

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan is conducting a first in a series of new training courses for members of the Women`s Committee Central Apparatus and its regional representations. Thirty representatives of the Women’s Committee, from Tashkent city and the regions of Tashkent and Syrdarya are participating in the course from 2 to 4 July 2019 in Tashkent.