News and press releases

Gender mainstreaming in local governments and election campaigns was the focus of an OSCE-supported training seminar for 30 high-level local government executives and local district legislators from the Zhambyl Region, held on 20 April 2018 in Taraz, Kazakhstan...

An OSCE-supported five-day training seminar on risk profiling techniques to ensure public safety at transportation facilities concluded on 20 April 2018 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...

WARSAW, 19 April 2018 – Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), today urged the authorities in Armenia to protect and ensure the right to freedom of peaceful assembly in the country, as protests there continue...

The second annual Media Fellowship, an initiative of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo to build the capacities of young journalists and establish a network of fellows from communities living in Kosovo, was launched on 17 April 2018...

Strengthening the capacity of law enforcement personnel working with Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities to ensure the protection and promotion of human rights in the course of policing was the focus of a training course organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights

A team of experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) was in Prishtinë/Priština from 16 to 19 April for a consultation and planning visit as part of the ODIHR project  Support to Elections in the Western Balkans. In-depth consultations were held with key

SEOUL, 19 April 2018- More than 150 experts from across the OSCE area and the Asian region gathered in Seoul today for an inter-regional conference on preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism, organized by the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Korea in close co-operation with the OSCE Transnational Threats Department...