Newsroom
News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports monitoring training for Armenian human rights defenders
Publishing date: 11 November 2011
TSAKHKADZOR, Armenia, 11 November 2011 – Increasing human rights knowledge and strengthening the monitoring capacities of civil society organizations was the aim of a three-day training course that ended today in Armenia...
OSCE starts prosecutorial reform project in Armenia
Publishing date: 24 August 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
YEREVAN, 24 August 2011 – Ambassador Sergey Kapinos, the Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, and Aghvan Hovsepyan, the Armenian Prosecutor General, today signed a co-operation agreement on prosecutorial reform in Armenia...
OSCE Office supports public debate on Armenia's new draft legislation on religious freedoms
Publishing date: 19 August 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
YEREVAN, 19 August 2011 – A new draft law on religious freedoms was debated today at a public discussion organized with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan...
OSCE Office promotes human rights education in Armenia
Publishing date: 26 July 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Education
VANADZOR, Armenia, 26 July 2011 – Thirty secondary school teachers from many regions of Armenia are participating in a three-week intensive course on human rights that started today in Vanadzor in the Lori region...
OSCE promotes freedom of assembly in Armenia
Publishing date: 23 June 2011
Some 50 representatives from political parties, municipalities and judges participated in three workshops on freedom of assembly organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan from 20 to 22 June 2011...
Further reforms needed in Armenian police detention centres, OSCE-supported report says
Publishing date: 20 June 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
YEREVAN, 20 June 2011 –– Efforts to bring Armenian police detention centres in line with national legislation and international human rights standards are progressing, but further improvement of national legislative framework and practice is needed, says an OSCE-supported report released today...
OSCE human rights chief says progress on judicial reform key for Armenia’s democratic development
Publishing date: 10 March 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law