News and press releases

CHISINAU, 3 February 2017 – A group of 14 young men and women from Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Turkey and the Russian Federation came together in Chisinau, Moldova, for a two-day workshop to discuss the threat of violent extremism in the Black Sea region. The workshop was convened at the initiative of the Austrian Chairmanship which has identified the prevention of terrorist radicalization as one of its priorities.

KYIV, 17 January 2017- Members of the Youth Contact Group, established by the OSCE to promote inter-regional dialogue in Ukraine, today shared their visions of the future with OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz during a walking tour of Kyiv today...

The OSCE Presence in Albania, in close co-operation with the National Chamber of Advocacy and the National School of Advocates, completed on 19 December 2016 the Second Edition of the Moot Court Competition, with an event held in one of the High Court’s trial rooms. Eight four-member teams, made of young lawyers who are students of the National School of Advocacy, participated in the event...

The annual OSCE-supported Youth Legal Forum concluded on 10 December 2016 at the Kazakh Humanities and Law University (KAZGUU) in Astana. This year’s two-day event focused on the limits to restricting freedom of expression and distribution of information on the Internet, in recognition of the International Human Rights Day...

HAMBURG, Germany, 8 December 2016- A team of students from the University of Ljubljana today won first prize in a regional OSCE competition under the “Peer-2-Peer (P2P): Challenging Extremism” initiative...

HAMBURG, Germany, 8 December 2016- Youth participation and youth mainstreaming in security were in focus at a side event co-organized today on the margins of the 23rd OSCE Ministerial Council in Hamburg by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation of Spain and the OSCE Chairmanship’s three Special Representatives on Youth and Security. Taking part were many youth activists from civil society and OSCE youth focal points...

A two-day training course for youth on tackling gender stereotypes and further supporting the advancement of women and girls in all spheres of public and political life concluded on 2 December 2016 at the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...