News and press releases

The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe delivered a workshop for a newly-established multi-disciplinary group on preventing domestic violence and supporting, protecting and rehabilitating survivors and victims, on 13 September 2017 in Isfara, northern Tajikistan...

From 3 to 6 September 2017, OSCE Senior Gender Adviser Amarsanaa Darisuren visited Ukraine, where she held meetings with government officials, including representatives of the ministries for foreign and internal affairs and social policy, to discuss key developments in gender equality in the country...

Women’s full and equal political participation, the role of political parties and the contribution of the women’s movement to women’s political empowerment were the focus of discussions during the International Forum on Women’s Political Empowerment in Budapest on 7 September 2017. The Forum was

Forty-six teachers from vocational schools throughout Moldova completed a Train the Trainer programme and learned new techniques for achieving gender equality and improving their skills in the promotion of women’s rights in the field of education. The training course, organized by the OSCE Mission to Moldova in partnership with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research, took place from 22 to 25 August 2017 in Chisinau...

Fifty young women from all over Tajikistan came together in Bahoriston of Sughd region from 31 July to 4 August 2017 for a summer camp for young women. The camp was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe...

ASTANA, 2 August 2017- The OSCE-supported Second International Women’s Forum on Future Energy: Women, Business, and the Global Economy began today in Astana for some 200 participants including high-level government officials and representatives of Kazakhstan’s Parliament, civil society and the business community...

A three-day training seminar and a public discussion of the legal acts and mechanisms regulating the police’s work in combating domestic violence concluded on 30 July 2017 in Kazakhstan’s Pavlodar Region...