News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE/ODIHR calls for remembrance of and education about Roma genocide as key to avoiding recurrence of past atrocities
Publishing date: 1 August 2020
WARSAW, 1 August 2020- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today joins the international community in marking 76 years since the Nazis murdered the remaining 3,000 Roma men, women and children in Zigeunerlager, the "Gypsy camp" at Auschwitz-Birkenau on 2 August 1944. While the number of Roma victims remains unknown, it is estimated that up to 500,000 Roma and Sinti people died under the Nazi regime, as well as its allies and collaborators...
Education vital to prevent escalation of violence that can lead to genocide, OSCE human rights head says on Srebrenica anniversary
Publishing date: 11 July 2020
WARSAW, 11 July 2020 – The importance of education and commemoration to promote tolerance and prevent the escalation of violence cannot be underestimated, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) said on the anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide in 1995...
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina donates IT equipment to Home for Children without Parental Care “Dom porodica” in Zenica
Publishing date: 4 June 2020
The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), as part of its wider initiative to support the country in its pandemic response, on 4 June 2020 in Zenica, provided IT equipment for the social protection institution “Dom porodica”, a home for children without parental care...
Students of Max van der Stoel Award from Jajce invest in their schools
Publishing date: 3 June 2020
On 3 June 2020, high school students from the Municipality of Jajce, represented by the Student Council of the Secondary Vocational School Jajce, handed over IT equipment for the Secondary Vocational School and “Nikola Sop” Secondary School, with the support of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)...
OSCE Presence in Albania holds activities in support of Master’s Programme in Criminology establishment at Law Faculty in Tirana
Publishing date: 2 June 2020
On 28 and 29 May 2020 in Tirana, the OSCE Presence in Albania, in co-operation with the Law Faculty at the University of Tirana, organized a workshop with the academic staff of the new Master Programme in Criminology, aimed to improve capacities of professionals, academics and policy-makers to identify root causes of crime...
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina donates IT equipment to Una Sana Canton Ministry of Education
Publishing date: 1 June 2020
The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), as part of its wider initiative to support Bosnia and Herzegovina in its pandemic response, on 1 June 2020 in Bihac, provided IT equipment for the Una Sana Canton Ministry of Education...
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina donates IT equipment to Canton 10 Ministry of Education
Publishing date: 29 May 2020