News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE/ODIHR seminar in Ukraine focuses on freedom of religion or belief, and hate crimes
Publishing date: 24 April 2015
Some 40 representatives from the Ukraine’s Vinnytsia Region and district administrations discussed the international standards on freedom of religion and belief, and responses to hate crime at a seminar organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) with the support of the Vinnytsia Regional State Administration on 23 and 24 April 2015.
OSCE-supported training on understanding and investigating hate crimes takes place in Skopje
Publishing date: 23 April 2015
The OSCE Mission to Skopje, in co-operation with the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), will train 50 law enforcement officers in recognizing, understanding and investigating hate crimes from 23 to 29 April 2015 in Skopje...
OSCE/ODIHR hosts meeting on legal personality of religious or belief communities with civil society and state authorities from Central Asia
Publishing date: 20 April 2015
The legal personality of religious or belief communities in the Central Asia region was the focus of an event organized jointly by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Regional Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights for Central Asia, on 20 April 2015 in Bishkek.
Freedoms of association and assembly cornerstones of democracy and security, say participants at OSCE meeting
Publishing date: 16 April 2015
VIENNA, 16 April 2015 – The freedoms of association and assembly are the cornerstone of a vibrant, pluralistic and participatory democracy, and restrictions to these can only be allowed in line with relevant international standards and commitments, participants said today at the opening of a two-day OSCE meeting in Vienna...
Partnership and co-operation takes Bosnia and Herzegovina forward on its reform path, says OSCE Secretary General Zannier
Publishing date: 16 April 2015
SARAJEVO, 16 April 2015- OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier concluded yesterday a three-day visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he met with high-level state officials, Srebenica municipal and religious leaders, and senior representatives of the international community...
OSCE Yerevan Office donates equipment to State Investigative Committee to help improve criminal justice in Armenia
Publishing date: 16 April 2015
The OSCE Office in Yerevan on 15 April 2015 donated equipment including 15 computers and three printer-scanner machines to the newly-established State Investigative Committee with the aim of enhancing the capacities and efficiency of this institution and its investigators, and to promote the
Azerbaijan’s Jafarov ‘clearly a prisoner of conscience,’ says OSCE PA human rights Chair
Publishing date: 16 April 2015
COPENHAGEN, 16 April 2015 – The Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), today condemned the sentencing of Azerbaijani rights activist Rasul Jafarov to a lengthy prison term and called on the international community to recognize him as a prisoner of conscience...