News and press releases

The former Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia’s Rule of Law and Human Rights Department, Ruth Van Rhijn, received the Serbian Judicial Academy’s Annual Award for the Advancement of the Judiciary on 4 May 2012...

The OSCE Mission to Serbia’s Democratization Department, in partnership with Serbia’s Judicial Training Academy, organized the country’s first anti-discrimination and gender equality training course for apprentice judges in Zlatibor, in central Serbia, from 5 to 8 December 2011...

Some 20 judges, prosecutors and representatives of the Journalists’ Association of Serbia and the Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia gathered on 19 October 2011 in Belgrade to discuss the decriminalization of libel...

VILNIUS, 20 July 2011- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, today welcomed the arrest by Serbian authorities of Goran Hadžić, the last remaining fugitive wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague...

BELGRADE, 6 July 2011- Staff from the Serbian High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor completed today a three-day training course on international humanitarian law. The training was held as part of the War Crimes Justice Project which is led by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)...

BELGRADE, 26 May 2011- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Dimitrios Kypreos, welcomes the arrest in Serbia todayof the Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladić, who was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), including genocide in Srebrenica...

The OSCE Mission to Serbia in partnership with the Italian Embassy in Belgrade on 6 and 7 April 2011 organized a seminar on effective and transparent methods for managing temporarily seized assets deriving from criminal activity. The seminar was the first of its kind...