News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre supports training of law students to enhance respect for rule of law in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 27 April 2016
BISHKEK, 27 April 2016 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek in co-operation with the Human Rights Advocacy Centre and the Kyrgyz State Law Academy concluded a two-day training course for nine competitively-selected law students from different regions of Kyrgyzstan to enhance their abilities to observe and assess current gaps in the administration of justice...
OSCE meeting in Teslic emphasizes importance of consistent application of double jeopardy principle in war crimes cases
Publishing date: 27 April 2016
TESLIC, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), 27 April 2016 – The consistent application of the double jeopardy principle in war crimes processing is crucial to preventing serious infringements of the constitutional principles of legal certainty and equality before the law, concluded BiH judges and prosecutors at an OSCE-organized peer-to-peer meeting today in Teslic...
Law students and paralegals trained to raise awareness about state guaranteed legal aid at OSCE event in Moldova
Publishing date: 26 April 2016
The OSCE Mission to Moldova organized a training event on raising the public’s awareness of state guaranteed legal aid for four paralegals and 18 law students from Bălţi, Cahul, Chişinău and Comrat, from 22 to 23 April 2016 in Vadul-lui-Vodă...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Steinmeier stresses importance of ODIHR’s work during visit to headquarters in Warsaw
Publishing date: 19 April 2016
WARSAW, 19 April 2016 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier, today visited the headquarters of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), in the context of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Office...
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina holds series of lectures for law students in Tuzla
Publishing date: 19 April 2016
TUZLA, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), 19 April 2016 – The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, in co-operation with the Faculty of Law of the University of Tuzla, completed a series of lectures for students today on the work of the judicial and prosecutorial authorities in BiH in the fields of hate crimes, human trafficking, and processing war crimes cases...
OSCE-supported event contributes to provision of legal aid to vulnerable persons in Moldova
Publishing date: 19 April 2016
Twenty-one law students and three consultants from the National Legal Aid Council took part in a training event organized by the OSCE Mission to Moldova from 14 to 16 April 2016 on delivering primary legal aid to vulnerable persons...
Statement by OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on the domestic political crisis in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Publishing date: 14 April 2016
Berlin, 14 April 2016 – “I am very concerned about the latest developments in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The decision of the Macedonian President to exempt from criminal prosecution politicians and office holders, who face charges of grave misconduct, damages the rule of law and legal peace.