News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE PA Special Representative on the South Caucasus and Human Rights Committee Chair welcome release of Azerbaijan’s Ismayilova
Publishing date: 25 May 2016
COPENHAGEN, 25 May 2016 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Special Representative on the South Caucasus, Kristian Vigenin (MP, Bulgaria), and the Chair of the OSCE PA’s Committee on Democracy, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Questions, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), today welcomed the release by the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan of investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova...
Statement by OSCE PA Human Rights Committee Chair Isabel Santos on Nadiya Savchenko’s release
Publishing date: 25 May 2016
COPENHAGEN, 25 May 2016 – Following the release of Ukrainian pilot and member of parliament Nadiya Savchenko after nearly two years in a Russian prison, reportedly in exchange for two alleged Russian servicemen Aleksandr Aleksandrov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, issued the following statement:...
ODIHR Director Link welcomes Nadiya Savchenko’s release, stresses need to respect rights of remaining prisoners
Publishing date: 25 May 2016
WARSAW, 25 May 2016 – Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, welcomed the release today of Ukrainian pilot and member of parliament, Nadiya Savchenko, who had been held in Russia since 2014...
OSCE supports training seminar on human rights protection in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 19 May 2016
An OSCE-supported two-day training seminar on human rights protection mechanisms for some 280 representatives of the government, students and civil society concluded in Aktobe, Kazakhstan on 19 May 2016...
OSCE Mission to Moldova brings together lawyers from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River to introduce them to the uses of forensic expertise
Publishing date: 17 May 2016
The OSCE Mission to Moldova on 13 May 2016 organized the first in a year-long series of meetings of the Human Rights Club for lawyers from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River. The event, held in Tiraspol, brought together 27 lawyers to discuss the work of forensic experts and the benefits of co-operating with such experts in order to better represent their clients’ needs...
OSCE Presence supports dialogue on Albania’s totalitarian past
Publishing date: 17 May 2016
ELBASAN, Albania, 17 May 2016 – The OSCE Presence in Albania, with support from the German government, yesterday in Elbasan hosted a performance of a play reflecting on Albania’s totalitarian past...
Migration crisis requires a Europe-wide response, OSCE parliamentarians’ visit to Calais confirms
Publishing date: 13 May 2016
CALAIS, 11 May 2016 – The refugee and migrant crisis is impacting all of Europe with implications in humanitarian, economic and security dimensions, and therefore requires a continent-wide, multidimensional response, said parliamentarians at the conclusion of a field visit to Calais today...