News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports capacity building training course for prison staff in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 10 June 2016
BISHKEK, 10 June 2016 – An OSCE-supported training course for 10 staff members of the National Security State Committee’s (NSSC) remand prisons on improving the prison service standards concluded today at the NSSC Institute in Bishkek...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine supports dialogue on protection of property in time of conflict
Publishing date: 10 June 2016
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and the Supreme Court of Ukraine organized on 10 June 2016 in Kyiv a joint roundtable discussion on protection of property in times of conflict, bringing together over 60 representatives of Ukrainian legislative and executive powers, leading judicial and law schools, as well as judges and international and local experts...
OSCE/ODIHR co-hosts roundtable discussion in Riga on role of military associations and unions in Central and Eastern Europe
Publishing date: 7 June 2016
International standards and good practices concerning the human rights of armed forces personnel were the focus of an event, co-organized by OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the European Organization of Military Associations (EUROMIL) in Riga on 7 June 2016.
OSCE conducts seminar on access to justice challenges in relocated administrative courts in eastern Ukraine
Publishing date: 7 June 2016
Access to justice in courts of administrative jurisdiction in times of conflict, protection of human rights and application of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) case law were in the focus of an OSCE-supported seminar on 6 and 7 June 2016 in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, which brought together some 60 judges working in the administrative courts relocated from Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as local and international experts...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro and Montenegrin parliament hosted meeting of Secretaries General of Western Balkans parliaments
Publishing date: 3 June 2016
Secretaries General and Deputy Secretaries General of Western Balkans parliaments, heads of human resources and information and communications technology departments, legal advisors and representatives of OSCE Missions in the region took part in a meeting on strategic and annual planning in parliaments in Podgorica, Montenegro on 1 and 2 June 2016...
Strengthened amnesty laws and improved support for released persons in Tajikistan recommended at OSCE-hosted roundtable discussion
Publishing date: 3 June 2016
An analysis of Tajikistan’s three most recent amnesty laws and the findings of a study on the situation of persons released from confinement were presented at an OSCE-hosted roundtable discussion on 3 June 2016 in Dushanbe, which brought together some 30 representatives of the government, civil society and international partners...
OSCE/ODIHR Academy in Georgia focuses on strengthening skills of national human rights institutions staff
Publishing date: 3 June 2016
Representatives of national human rights institutions (NHRIs) completed on 3 June 2016 in Tbilisi the third NHRI Academy, a week-long course led by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and organized jointly with the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI), in partnership with the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs and the Office of the Public Defender of Georgia.