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Assessing resolution of election disputes focus of new ODIHR handbook for election observers
Publishing date: 17 September 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
As part of its efforts to develop and refine its election observation methodology, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) launched a new publication at an event in Warsaw on 17 September 2019, during the annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. The Handbook for
OSCE trains Tajik police and drug control officers on effective project management
Publishing date: 17 September 2019
Representatives of Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry (MIA) and Drug Control Agency (DCA) learned how to successfully manage projects and raise funds to implement reforms in their agencies at a training course in Dushanbe. The course was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe and took place from 26 August to 13 September 2019. It brought together mid- to senior-ranking officers from different departments of the MIA and the DCA...
OSCE supports workshop on open budget data for achieving sustainable development goals
Publishing date: 17 September 2019
An OSCE-supported workshop on open budget data for the Sustainable Development Goals concluded on 13 September 2019 in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.
OSCE launches report on violence against women
Publishing date: 16 September 2019
WARSAW, 16 September 2019 – The OSCE today presented a report focusing on experiences of disadvantaged groups of women at the OSCE annual human rights conference, the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, in Warsaw. The report provides a detailed picture of violence experienced by disadvantaged women in South-Eastern and Eastern Europe.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 219/2019 issued on 16 September 2019
Publishing date: 16 September 2019
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, between the evenings of 13 and 14 September, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and fewer in Luhansk region. Between the evenings of 14 and 15 September, the Mission recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk
Civil society engagement essential to advance human rights, says OSCE PA President at Warsaw meeting
Publishing date: 16 September 2019
WARSAW, 16 September 2019 – Four decades after the Helsinki Final Act, the struggle to respect and promote human rights and human security remains a challenge in the OSCE area, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President George Tsereteli said at the opening of the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw today. Noting that the past decade has represented a downward trend, Tsereteli stressed that the human dimension requires increased dedication and focus by all...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro organizes training on Media Literacy
Publishing date: 16 September 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro
What we do: Media freedom and development
In order to improve media professionals and students of journalism knowledge of media literacy, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro is organizing a six-day training course from 16 to 21 September 2019, in Podgorica, for 20 participants from the office of the Protector of Human Rights and Freedoms (Ombudsman), the Agency for Electronic Media and journalism students...