News and press releases

An independent and efficient judiciary as a protector of citizens’ rights and freedoms was the focus of a conference organized to mark the Day of the Judiciary on 31 March 2017 in Skopje by the OSCE Mission and the Association of Judges...

A workshop on the prevention of early forced marriages, organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, took place on 27 March 2017 in Podgorica...

WARSAW, 26 March 2017- Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, today condemned the reported undue restrictions on public assemblies and the unnecessary use of force by Belarusian authorities against peaceful protestors in Minsk and other cities in the country.

SARAJEVO, 21 March 2017 – On the occasion of World Social Work Day, the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) supported the associations of social workers from BiH in organizing the conference “Challenges of social work in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, which concluded today in Sarajevo...

AK-BULAK, Kazakhstan, 17 March 2017 – An OSCE-supported annual two-day roundtable discussion on major areas of criminal justice modernization began today at Ak-Bulak near Almaty, Kazakhstan...

PODGORCA, 15 March 2017 – The head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Ambassador Maryse Daviet, and the programme manager of the mission’s rule of law and human rights programme, Robert Kucharski, met with the president of the Constitutional Court of Montenegro, Dragoljub Draskovic, on 15 March in Podgorica...

ASTANA, 16 March 2017 – Ensuring the rights of the individual and its impact on the rule of law were the focus of an OSCE-supported international conference in the framework of the annual so-called Shaikenov Readings, which took place today in Astana...