News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE launches series of seminars in Kazakhstan on access to information and public councils
Publishing date: 28 April 2016
SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan, 28 April 2016 – The first of ten OSCE-supported two-day seminars for some 30 officials and journalists on the implementation of Kazakhstan’s laws on “Access to Information” and “Public Councils” began today in Shymkent, South Kazakhstan Region...
ODIHR Director calls on Kyrgyzstan to free human rights defender Azimjan Askarov
Publishing date: 22 April 2016
WARSAW, 22 April 2016 Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), welcomed the UN Human Rights Committee’s decision yesterday on human rights defender Azimjan Askarov’s complaint, calling on Kyrgyzstan to release Askarov and overturn his sentence...
OSCE/ODIHR Director Link welcomes lifting of travel ban for Azerbaijani human rights defenders
Publishing date: 20 April 2016
WARSAW, 20 April 2016 Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), today welcomed Azerbaijan’s decision to lift travel bans on Leyla and Arif Yunus, two prominent Azerbaijani human rights defenders, who are also spouses...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Steinmeier stresses importance of ODIHR’s work during visit to headquarters in Warsaw
Publishing date: 19 April 2016
WARSAW, 19 April 2016 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier, today visited the headquarters of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), in the context of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Office...
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina holds series of lectures for law students in Tuzla
Publishing date: 19 April 2016
TUZLA, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), 19 April 2016 – The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, in co-operation with the Faculty of Law of the University of Tuzla, completed a series of lectures for students today on the work of the judicial and prosecutorial authorities in BiH in the fields of hate crimes, human trafficking, and processing war crimes cases...
OSCE-supported event contributes to provision of legal aid to vulnerable persons in Moldova
Publishing date: 19 April 2016
Twenty-one law students and three consultants from the National Legal Aid Council took part in a training event organized by the OSCE Mission to Moldova from 14 to 16 April 2016 on delivering primary legal aid to vulnerable persons...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek-supported report assesses protection of human rights within Kyrgyzstan’s armed forces
Publishing date: 19 April 2016
BISHKEK, 19 April 2016 – An OSCE Centre in Bishkek-supported report detailing the protection of human rights within the Kyrgyz Armed Forces and recommendations to the Kyrgyz Government on how to improve the situation was presented in Bishkek today by the Kylym Shamy NGO, the Kyrgyz Ombudsman Office, the National Centre on the Prevention of Torture and the General Staff of the Armed Forces...