News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Skopje hosts Law Faculty students from Stip
Publishing date: 16 December 2015
Some 30 students and professors from the Law Faculty of the Goce Delcev University in Stip visited the premises of the OSCE Mission to Skopje on 16 December 2015 to learn about the work of the Mission, particularly in the field of rule of law and good governance...
OSCE supports training course on trial monitoring for civil society organizations
Publishing date: 10 December 2015
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and USAID’s “Fair Justice” project organized a two-day training course for 22 representatives of civil society organizations on trial monitoring, which concluded on 10 December 2015 in Kyiv...
OSCE PA’s Santos welcomes release of Azerbaijan’s Leyla Yunus
Publishing date: 9 December 2015
COPENHAGEN, 9 December 2015 – The Chairperson of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), today welcomed the release from prison of Azerbaijani rights activist Leyla Yunus on humanitarian grounds., 9 December 2015 – The Chairperson of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), today welcomed the release from prison of Azerbaijani rights activist Leyla Yunus on humanitarian grounds...
OSCE/ODIHR Director Link praises release of Leyla Yunus
Publishing date: 9 December 2015
WARSAW, 9 December 2015 – Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), today welcomed the release from custody of Azerbaijani human rights defender Leyla Yunus, following a request from her lawyers based on her deteriorating health...
OSCE concludes set of seminars for defence lawyers on novelties of criminal legislation
Publishing date: 4 December 2015
On 4 December 2015 in Astana, Kazakhstan, the OSCE Programme Office held the last in a series of five training seminars for defence lawyers, organized in co-operation with the Almaty Bar Association, on the novelties of the country’s criminal justice codes...
OSCE conducts seminar for judges from relocated administrative courts in Eastern Ukraine on human rights protection
Publishing date: 3 December 2015
An OSCE-supported two-day seminar on the protection of human rights and application of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for 60 judges working in the relocated administrative courts from Donetsk and Luhansk regions concluded in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, today 3 December 2015....
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports opening of press centre within Public Prosecution Office
Publishing date: 3 December 2015
The first press centre within the State Public Prosecution Office was opened in Skopje today, 3 December 2015, with the support of the OSCE Mission to Skopje. The centre aims to assist the Public Prosecution in developing its capacity to establish a sustainable and transparent approach towards the media and the general public...