News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Towards Achieving Gender Parity: New Global Approaches?
Publishing date: 1 February 2018
What strategies are needed to reach gender parity in international and regional organizations like the United Nations and the OSCE? Some fifty delegates of OSCE participating States and OSCE staff members gathered to exchange views on this question at Café Demel in Vienna on 30 January 2018. The event was organized by the Gender Section of the Office of the OSCE Secretary General in co-operation with Norway’s Permanent Delegation to the OSCE.
OSCE and UNODC sign new 2018-2019 joint action plan
Publishing date: 31 January 2018
VIENNA, 31 January 2018 – A plan for joint action by the OSCE and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for the period 2018-2019 was signed by OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger and UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov today at the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna.
OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe organizes roundtable discussion to discuss national and international commitments to gender equality
Publishing date: 19 December 2017
A roundtable discussion on national and international commitments on gender equality took place in Dushanbe on 13 December 2017. The event was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe and attended by representatives of the Committee on Women and Family Affairs under the Government of Tajikistan and 35 participants from political parties and civil society, including national gender experts and young adult gender champions.
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan concludes professional training courses for female managers
Publishing date: 18 December 2017
A one-week training course for 58 experienced women managers organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (PCUz) concluded on 16 December 2017 at the Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT).
OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe holds training course on raising awareness of human trafficking
Publishing date: 15 December 2017
A three-day training course organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe on raising awareness of human trafficking and identifying and assisting victims concluded on 13 December 2017 in Dushanbe.
OSCE helps Kyrgyzstan’s State Commission on Religious Affairs to train staff in promoting gender equality
Publishing date: 15 December 2017
The Programme Office in Bishkek supported a one-month training course aimed at improving the skills of the staff of Kyrgyzstan’s State Commission on Religious Affairs (SCRA) in promoting gender equality. The training sessions for SCRA staff course took place from 8 November to 6 December 2017 in Bishkek...
OSCE Mission to Serbia announces winners of its 2017 Person of the Year Award
Publishing date: 12 December 2017
BELGRADE, 12 December 2017 – At a ceremony today in Belgrade, the OSCE Mission to Serbia presented its Person of the Year Awards to: Dženeta Agović, Director of the Impuls civil society organization from Tutin; Brankica Janković, Commissioner for the Protection of Equality; Tamara Mirović, Deputy Republic Public Prosecutor; Nedim Sejdinović, President of the Independent Association of Journalists of Vojvodina; and Miloš Stojković, media lawyer...