News and press releases

SARAJEVO, 6 November 2015- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, in co-operation with the FBiH Gender Centre, the Network of Women Police Officers, and UN Women, today concluded a series of ten training courses on implementing the Law on Protection from Domestic Violence and the use of the domestic violence database...

Following the OSCE Office on Democratic Institutions and Human Rights’ (ODIHR) competitive call for proposals to Ukrainian civil society organizations (CSOs) for human rights monitoring pro-jects, ODIHR invited over 40 representatives from 12 Ukrainian CSOs to a capacity-building train-ing event on human rights monitoring, held in Kyiv between 2 and 6 November 2015...

KYIV, 6 November 2015 – An OSCE-organized conference in Kyiv brought together representatives of the government and civil society to discuss the national strategy for developing civil society over the next four years...

Complying with human rights standards, while effectively countering terrorism, was the focus of two training courses organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 2- 3 and 5- 6 November 2015 in Madrid, Spain...

The role of dialogue in enhancing the security of religious and belief communities was the focus of a regional roundtable discussion, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Odessa, Ukraine on 3 November 2015.

The OSCE Programme Office in Astana supported the second presentation of the Report on the Situation with Human Rights in Kazakhstan by the Human Rights Commission under the President on 30 October 2015, this time in Shymkent, southern Kazakhstan. The report covers the period from April 2014 to April 2015, and was published in the Kazakh, Russian and English languages with the OSCE’s support...

SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan, 30 October 2015- An OSCE-supported training seminar on mechanisms of human rights protection for government and law-enforcement bodies, civil society groups and judges concluded today in Shymkent, South Kazakhstan Region...