News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Countering intolerance and discrimination is vital to meeting current security challenges, say participants at OSCE meeting
Publishing date: 14 April 2016
VIENNA, 14 April, 2016 – Promoting tolerance and effectively countering discrimination are vital to ensuring security, and must be at the centre of policies to address current threats, participants said today at the opening of a two-day OSCE meeting in Vienna...
Human rights at police detention centres focus of OSCE-supported workshop in Armenia
Publishing date: 12 April 2016
A two-day workshop aimed to promote and enhance protection of human rights of persons in detention opened on 12 April 2016 in Dilijan, Armenia. The workshop is organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan in co-operation with the Police and Public Monitoring Group for Police Detention Centres...
OSCE-supported workshop aims to facilitate partnership of social and criminal justice systems in Armenia
Publishing date: 1 April 2016
Mainstreaming social services for former prisoners in the framework of ongoing criminal justice reforms and institutionalization of integrated social services was the aim of the OSCE-supported workshop co-organized with the Offenders’ Rehabilitation Center of Armenia’s Ministry of Justice on 31 March- 2 April 2016 in Aghveran, Kotayk region of Armenia...
ODIHR and OSCE Office in Yerevan co-organize training on rights of migrants
Publishing date: 24 March 2016
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) in co-operation with the OSCE Office in Yerevan held a training course on the rights of migrants on 24-26 March 2016 in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia. The overall aim of this training was to support national authorities of OSCE participating States in ensuring that their national migration management practices comply with relevant international legal obligations and OSCE commitments, aiming to respect and protect the human rights of migrants...
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina completes series of events dedicated to raising awareness about social protection
Publishing date: 21 March 2016
SARAJEVO, 21 March 2016 – The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina in cooperation with the Cantonal Associations of Social Workers today completed a series of events that marked the International Social Work Day...
OSCE/ODIHR Director Link welcomes pardon of human rights defenders, activists and journalists in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 19 March 2016
WARSAW, 19 March 2016 – Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, welcomed today the pardon of a number of human rights defenders, activists and journalists by President Ilham Aliyev.
OSCE Chairmanship Special Representative, Gernot Erler calls for immediate release of Nadiya Savchenko
Publishing date: 9 March 2016
BERLIN, 9 March 2016 – Gernot Erler, Special Representative of the German Government for the OSCE Chairmanship, expressed today great concern following reports concerning the health of Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian pilot imprisoned in the Russian Federation.