News and press releases

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 3 November 2016 – The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina supported a thematic meeting today in Banja Luka of the Supervisory Body for the Implementation of the National Strategy for Processing of War Crimes, representatives of the High Judicial Prosecutorial Council Secretariat, the ministries of justice, and judges and prosecutors working on war crimes cases...

More than 30 academics, legal professionals and representatives of civil society and international organizations explored the implications of states of conflict or emergency on fair trial rights at a meeting organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw

OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 21 October 2016 – An OSCE-supported two-day training course for some 20 officers from Kyrgyz law enforcement agencies on countering drug crimes concluded today in Osh...

Some 16 representatives of the Parliamentary services and secretaries of the Montenegrin Parliament Committees successfully completed the last in a series of an OSCE-supported programme, aimed at strengthening their leadership, interpersonal and communication skills, from 13 to 14 October 2015 in Podgorica...

Relations between the judiciary and the media, international standards on freedom of speech, the legal basis and particularity of defamation cases, as well as media access to courts were the focus of an OSCE-supported workshop for some 35 judges, lawyers and journalists which concluded on 15 October 2016 in Dushanbe...

STRASBOURG, France, 14 October 2016 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in an address on Thursday to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council in Europe in Strasbourg, underlined the important role that the Council of Europe plays in addressing many of the serious security challenges in Europe, thus highlighting the strong potential for dialogue and co-operation between the OSCE and the Council of Europe...

An OSCE-supported training seminar on the UN Istanbul Protocol on Torture and related technical standards began on 3 October 2016 in Astana, Kazakhstan...