News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Trial management in complex corruption cases, focus of OSCE-supported meeting
Publishing date: 5 October 2020
The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) organized an online peer-to-peer meeting on trial management in complex corruption cases on 5 October 2020. The meeting gathered 25 judges and prosecutors from different jurisdictions in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as partners from different international organizations working with judiciary. The meeting was organized as a follow-up to its report “Trial Monitoring of Corruption Cases in BiH: Second Assessment”...
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina co-organizes training course on ethical standards and disciplinary practice for judges and prosecutors
Publishing date: 1 October 2020
The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) organized two online training courses on ethical standards and disciplinary practice for newly appointed judges and prosecutors and legal associates, on 1 and 2 October 2020...
OSCE Presence trains academic staff of first-ever Master’s Programme in Criminology in Albania
Publishing date: 28 September 2020
The OSCE Presence in Albania, together with the Faculties of Law and of Social Sciences of the University of Tirana, organized a training course from 22 to 25 September 2020, for academic staff of the new Master’s Programme in Criminology. The Master’s programme, which will start this academic year, is the first of its kind in Albania. The OSCE Presence in Albania initiated the programme as part of a project financially supported by the United States Mission to OSCE...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan co-organizes seminar for judges on using provisions of international treaties in national court decisions
Publishing date: 24 September 2020
Judges and members of Uzbekistan’s Supreme Court and the National Human Rights Centre completed a three-day seminar on 24 September 2020 about using the provisions of international treaties in decisions of the country’s courts...
OSCE Mission presents Judge Korner’s report on war crimes processing at state level in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 16 September 2020
SARAJEVO, 16 September 2020 – The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) presented today in Sarajevo the report by Judge Joanna Korner on war crimes processing at the state level in Bosnia and Herzegovina...
OSCE Presence launches transparency project for public procurement system in Albania
Publishing date: 3 September 2020
The OSCE Presence in Albania launched a project aimed at strengthening the capacities and increasing transparency and accountability of the public procurement system in Albania, on 1 September 2020...
The power of digital technologies must be harnessed to counter hatred based on religion or belief, ODIHR says
Publishing date: 21 August 2020
WARSAW, 21 August 2020 – On the eve of the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) calls for better use to be made of the advantages that digital technologies can offer, as well as a greater emphasis on countering hatred online...