News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE and Montenegrin Ministry of Human and Minority Rights promote fight against discrimination through training
Publishing date: 19 April 2013
Strengthening the mechanisms of promoting human and minority rights was the topic of a workshop organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro and the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights on 18 April 2013 in Przno, Becici...
ODIHR trains police trainers on preventing and responding to hate crimes
Publishing date: 12 April 2013
Police trainers from 11 OSCE participating States completed a three-day specialized police training programme on recognizing, understanding and investigating hate crimes, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Association of European Police Colleges (AEPC) from 10 to 12 April 2013...
OSCE and Council of Europe discussed the protection of the rights of persons belonging to national minorities and tolerance and non-discrimination issues
Publishing date: 5 April 2013
STRASBOURG, 5 April 2013 – Ambassador Ihor Prokopchuk of Ukraine, Chairperson of the OSCE Permanent Council, and Ambassador Josep Dalleres of Andorra, Chairperson of the Ministers’ Deputies of the Council of Europe co-chaired today the 17th meeting of the Co-ordination Group between the Council of Europe and the OSCE. Representatives of the OSCE Troika, Bureau of the Ministers’ Deputies of the Council of Europe, Secretariats of both Organizations and their focal points also took part at the meeting...
Joint Statement on International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Publishing date: 21 March 2013
VIENNA, WARSAW, STRASBOURG, 21 March 2013 – The social fallout from the ongoing global economic crisis must not become an excuse to allow racism and prejudice to go unchecked, said Morten Kjaerum, Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and Eva Smith Asmussen, Chair of the Council of Europe's European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), in a joint statement to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination...
Promoting tolerance, non-discrimination key topics of discussion by OSCE Chair-in-Office’s Special Envoy, Personal Representatives
Publishing date: 22 February 2013
The OSCE Chair-in-Office’s Special Envoy Viacheslav Yatsiuk met with the OSCE Chairperson’s Personal Representatives on tolerance and non-discrimination Senator Adil Akhmetov, Rabbi Andrew Baker and Ambassador Tetiana Izhevska, in Vienna on 21 February 2013...
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, OSCE Chair urges renewed efforts to fight intolerance, stressing importance of youth human rights education
Publishing date: 26 January 2013
KYIV, 27 January 2013 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara, marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day today with a call to honour the victims with renewed efforts to fight intolerance, discrimination and hate crimes...
OSCE Mission to Skopje completes “Stop Sports Violence” project
Publishing date: 21 December 2012
From 19 October to 14 December 2012, the OSCE Mission to Skopje organized a volleyball tournament between students of eleven secondary schools as part of a project to prevent sports violence in the cities of Tetovo and Gostivar, in the western part of the country...