News and press releases

NEUM, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 30 September 2016 – More than 30 prosecutors from across BiH gathered for a war crimes panel within the Ninth Symposium of Prosecutors in BiH, which was supported by the OSCE Mission to BiH and concluded today in Neum...

BISHKEK, 30 September 2016 – Some 16 social workers of penitentiary institutions across Kyrgyzstan will complete a two-week capacity-building training course tomorrow, which is organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the Kyrgyz State Service for Execution of Punishment (SSEP)...

The Parliament of Montenegro, with the support of the OSCE Presence in Albania and the Mission to Montenegro, hosted a visit of the Research Centre and public relations services of the Parliament of Albania on 23 September 2016 in Podgorica, with the aim of goal of strengthening co-operation between the two institutions and enhancing their activities...

A roundtable discussion on hate crime legislation in Moldova organized by the OSCE Mission to Moldova in co-operation with the Moldovan Ministry of Justice brought together 27 representatives of the government, civil society and international organizations on 13 September 2016...

KYIV, 14 September 2016- Legal provisions requiring prior permission from authorities for religious gatherings are not compliant with the country’s basic law, reads a decision of Ukraine’s Constitutional Court announced on Tuesday, 13 September 2016 in Kyiv...

POTSDAM, 1 September 2016 – Speaking today at an informal meeting of OSCE Foreign Ministers in Potsdam, Germany, Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen (MP, Austria) urged intensified efforts at diplomacy and confidence-building, stressing that governments should make full use of the OSCE’s instruments to address common challenges...

The OSCE Programme Office in Astana concluded a series of two-day training seminars for some 100 members of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) against Torture on 2 August 2016 in Aktobe, Western Kazakhstan...