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OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Edi Rama takes action to ensure operational continuity ahead of imminent vacancies of Secretary General and Heads of Institutions roles

Publishing date: 17 July 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Democratization, Media freedom and development, National minority issues
TIRANA / VIENNA, 17 July 2020 – In a letter to the OSCE’s 57 participating States today, Albania’s OSCE Chairmanship announced that the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Edi Rama has taken prompt action to ensure the Organization’s operational continuity in light of the imminent vacancies of the OSCE Secretary General and the Heads of Institutions roles...

Impact of emergency measures on human rights and democracy key focus of new OSCE/ODIHR report

Publishing date: 17 July 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Elections, Democratization, Gender equality, Roma and Sinti, Migration, Tolerance and non-discrimination
WARSAW, 17 July 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic has been a formative experience for all humanity and a health emergency of global proportions, presenting a huge challenge to national leaders, health systems, and citizens. The findings of a new report by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) shows that it has also been a test to our democracies and the respect for human rights to which countries across the OSCE committed many years ago.

OSCE Head of Mission Kavalec on reforms with Brcko District BiH officials

Publishing date: 22 June 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization
Kathleen Kavalec, Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), had online meetings with Brcko District BiH Mayor, Sinisa Milic and Assembly Speaker, Esed Kadric on 22 June 2020...

OSCE Mission to Montenegro congratulates citizens on its Independence Day

Publishing date: 20 May 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro
What we do: Democratization
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro congratulates the citizens of Montenegro on 21 May 2006, a day that commemorates Montenegro regaining its independence through a peaceful and democratic referendum...

OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan underlines importance of OSCE commitments at Parliament of Uzbekistan video conference

Publishing date: 4 May 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Democratization
At the invitation of the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, John MacGregor, participated at the video conference of the Parliament of Uzbekistan on 30 April 2020...

OSCE Presence brings together youth and Albanian Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to discuss COVID-19 measures

Publishing date: 30 April 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Democratization, Youth
Young people are agents of change, and they have a say also in the COVID-19 situation. With this aim, on 29 April 2020 in Tirana, the OSCE Presence in Albania brought together its Youth Advisory Group and the Albanian Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to discuss the COVID-19 situation in Albania, the work of the Albanian Delegation and youth involvement...

Parliaments vital for strong democracies in times of crisis, OSCE human rights and parliamentary heads say

Publishing date: 21 April 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Human rights, Democratization, Rule of law
Warsaw/Copenhagen, 21 April 2020 – A strong role for parliaments is crucial to the transparency and accountability of government measures as the COVID-19 pandemic puts our democracies to the test, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) said in a statement today...