News and press releases

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...

TASHKENT, 18 September 2020- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (PCUz) launches an infodemic toolkit (https://infodemictoolkit.org/en/) for media professionals to counter myths and fake information related to COVID-19. It is available in Uzbek, Russian and English.

Twenty-five participants from Uzbekistan participated in a Model OSCE conference from 2 to 4 September 2020. Participants were graduates or current students from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy (UWED) in Tashkent.

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan held an online event to mark 45 years since the signing of the Helsinki Final Act and the creation of what is now the OSCE on 28 August 2020.

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, in co-operation with the Public Foundation for Support and Development of National Mass Media and with the support of the Agency of Information and Mass Communications under the Administration of the President, is organizing an online training course from 18 to 20 August 2020, to enhance the skills of journalists, press officers, bloggers and other media representatives in the country...

A two-day online high-level event focusing on the rights of young people, the Samarkand Forum on Human Rights, was held on 12 and 13 August 2020. The meeting, supported by the OSCE Project Co-Ordinator in Uzbekistan, was attended by representatives of the OSCE Secretariat, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and other OSCE field operations. The event was co-organized with the Government of Uzbekistan represented by the National Human Rights Centre of Uzbekistan, the UN Country Team and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. The Samarkand Forum on Human Rights is the continuation of the Asian Forum which took place in 2018 in Samarkand.

To mark the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, an online roundtable discussion on combating this crime in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic was co-organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan and partners on 29 July 2020. The event brought together 90 representatives and experts in the field of combating human trafficking and forced labour from more than 50 government agencies and non-governmental organizations, as well as international organizations...