News and press releases

A series of three workshops organized by the OSCE Mission for 90 judges and lawyers in Kosovo on improving the protection of property rights was completed in Prishtinë/Priština on 31 October 2012...

More than 100 policymakers, academics, legal professionals and civil society representatives from across Central Asia highlighted recent reform initiatives, current challenges and the way forward in the region’s criminal justice sector at a two-and-a-half day forum that ended in Almaty on 31 October 2012...

The OSCE Mission to Moldova, together with the Central Electoral Commission, the Viitorul Institute for Development and Social Initiatives, the Moldova office of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems and the non-governmental organization East Europe Foundation held an international conference on political-party financing in Chisinau on 30 October 2012...

The OSCE Office in Baku supported a training course for police officers on the treatment of suspects and the accused in custody in the city of Sheki in north-western Azerbaijan on 18 and 19 October 2012...

A training course on procurement fraud and investigating corruption organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo concluded on 19 October 2012 at the Kosovo Academy for Public Safety in Vushtrri/Vučitrn...

The Secretaries General of parliaments in South-Eastern Europe gathered on 18 and 19 October 2012 in Tirana to discuss ways of modernizing human resource management in their national parliaments. The meeting was organized by the OSCE Presence in Albania, in co-operation with the Albanian Assembly and other OSCE field operations in the region...

Two half-day workshops for the directors of penal colonies under Kyrgyzstan’s penitentiary system took place on 18 October 2012 at the Training Centre for Prison Staff in Bishkek. The events were co-organized by the state penitentiary service, the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, Freedom House and USAID...