News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE and Azerbaijan’s Ombudsman hold workshop on torture prevention mechanism
Publishing date: 26 April 2012
BAKU, 26 April 2012 – A workshop organized by the OSCE Office in Baku and the Ombudsman Office of Azerbaijan on detention monitoring and reporting on cases of torture under national preventive mechanisms (NPMs) started today...
OSCE Centre in Ashgabat presents commentary on Turkmenistan’s criminal procedure code
Publishing date: 23 April 2012
ASHGABAT, 23 April 2012 – The OSCE Centre in Ashgabat presented an article-by-article commentary on the Criminal Procedure Code of Turkmenistan in Ashgabat today...
Prior to parliamentary elections in Armenia OSCE Office launches guide for voters on political parties
Publishing date: 18 April 2012
YEREVAN, 18 April 2012 – An OSCE-supported guidebook summarizing the platforms, activities and goals of political parties running for 6 May parliamentary elections in Armenia was presented today in Yerevan...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports regulatory reforms
Publishing date: 12 April 2012
SKOPJE, 12 April 2012 – Today the OSCE Mission to Skopje launched a package of two projects to train civil servants in law-drafting and improve the quality and inclusiveness of legislation...
OSCE/ODIHR report recommends further reforms on judge selection in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 30 March 2012
Further reforms to the process for selecting judges in Kyrgyzstan are needed to ensure an independent judiciary, according to an OSCE report presented in Bishkek on 30 March 2012...
OSCE Centre supports discussion on introducing plea bargaining into Kazakhstan’s criminal justice system
Publishing date: 26 March 2012
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 26 March 2012 – An OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on prospects for introducing plea bargaining into Kazakhstan’s planned Criminal Procedure Code was held in Almaty today...
ODIHR trains NGOs in south Kyrgyzstan on trial monitoring
Publishing date: 24 March 2012
The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) shared its trial-monitoring methodology with representatives of non-governmental organizations from the south of Kyrgyzstan, in two days of training organized in co-operation with the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and held in Osh on 23 and 24 March 2012...