News and press releases

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo is organizing a series of training courses for graduate lawyers from northern Kosovo to help them prepare for the bar exam given by the Ministry of Justice...

Civil society activists and officials from Ukraine discussed how to improve the functioning of the National Preventive Mechanisms, a tool to ensure monitoring of places of detention and to prevent the abuse of human rights there, at the 6th East European National Prevention Mechanisms Conference from 8 to 9 November 2016 in Lviv...

SARAJEVO, 8 November 2016 – Eleven authors from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia presented their research papers on hate crimes in South-East Europe to over 70 regional participants that gathered at a conference which concluded today in Sarajevo...

WARSAW, 2 November 2016 – Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), today expressed grave concern over statements by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that the country’s government would soon introduce a bill to reinstate the death penalty, and that he would sign such a bill into law...

Ways to ensure equal opportunities for people with disabilities to take part in public life and political affairs were discussed at a conference co-organized in Helsinki on 31 October 2016 by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Finland’s Ministry for Foreign

More than 30 academics, legal professionals and representatives of civil society and international organizations explored the implications of states of conflict or emergency on fair trial rights at a meeting organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw

The last in a series of five OSCE-supported training seminars for representatives of the government, civil society and judiciary on human rights protection mechanisms concluded in Aktau, Kazakhstan on 28 October 2016...