News and press releases

Ways to enhance women’s participation in public, political and economic life come under the spotlight at the OSCE Mediterranean Conference in Monaco on 28 October 2013...

CHISINAU, 25 October 2013 – An OSCE-supported tour of the “Casa M”, a theatre play raising awareness about the domestic violence starts today in Edineţ, a town in northern Moldova, and will cover seven other towns until mid-November...

UNITED NATIONS, 18 October 2013 – In a statement to the UN Security Council today, OSCE Senior Gender Adviser Ambassador Miroslava Beham outlined the Organization’s key contribution to maintaining international peace and security through its work on women, peace and security...

From 14 to 16 October 2013 the OSCE Centre in Astana held training seminars for police inspectors of Almaty on better implementation of Kazakhstan’s current legislation on the prevention of domestic violence...

For the third consecutive year in a row, International Day of Rural Women was marked in Montenegro on 15 October 2013 with the support of OSCE Mission. This year, a fair was held in Podgorica where women from rural areas sold their products...

Strategies for effective human rights monitoring and advancing women’s rights were discussed by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) at a workshop for officials from the National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia, in Ulaanbaatar on 14 and 15 October 2013...

Four years of OSCE work to enhance women’s participation in local decision-making were marked at a conference in Prishtinë/Priština on 9 October 2013...