News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
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 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 autumn school on criminal law aims at enhancing legal education in Ukraine and promoting co-operation in research
Publishing date: 30 November 2015
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University organized an autumn school in Kharkiv from 23 to 25 November 2015, bringing together law professors from different universities across Ukraine to learn about the current trends in criminal law and teaching methodologies...
OSCE supports international forum in Ukraine on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights
Publishing date: 27 November 2015
The fourth international forum on the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for legal professionals, co-organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, was held on 27 November 2015 in Lviv...
OSCE supports expert debate in Kyiv on constitutional changes in the area of judicial reform
Publishing date: 19 November 2015
KYIV, 19 November 2015 – Amendments to Ukraine’s Constitution that are essential for judicial reform are being debated today by experts, officials, diplomats and academic representatives at an event organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine trains newly-appointed judges in drafting quality court decisions on criminal and civil matters
Publishing date: 30 October 2015
More than 120 newly-appointed local court judges from across Ukraine participated in four OSCE-supported training sessions on opinion writing in criminal and civil matters held from 14 September to 30 October 2015 in the cities of Odesa, Chernivtsi, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine supports civil society’s engagement in justice sector reform
Publishing date: 28 October 2015
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine in co-operation with USAID’s “Fair Justice” Project concluded a two-day forum on 28 October 2015, which brought together public officials, representatives of civil society and the judiciary, and international experts to share best practices and lessons learned in promoting civil society’s engagement in justice sector reform...