News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports Borderline Reality art exhibition on Human Rights Day to promote rehabilitation of convicted persons in Armenia
Publishing date: 10 December 2014
ARMAVIR, Armenia, 10 December 2014 – On the occasion of Human Rights Day the OSCE Office in Yerevan supported an art exhibition at the newly-opened penitentiary institution in Armavir, which highlights the need for rehabilitating and reintegrating convicted people into society...
OSCE-supported Students’ Forum marks International Human Rights Day in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 10 December 2014
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 10 December 2014 – The different aspects of human rights protection are being addressed at the eighth annual Law Students’ Forum “Protection of Human Rights in a Changing World” on the occasion of International Human Rights Day, today in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
Human Rights Day 2014: Better protection of human rights defenders needed across the OSCE region, ODIHR Director says
Publishing date: 10 December 2014
WARSAW, 10 December 2014 – On the occasion of International Human Rights Day, Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), called on all OSCE participating States to do more to protect human rights defenders in the OSCE region..
OSCE Mission to Serbia assigns 2014 Person of the Year Award in support of an independent judiciary and human rights of prisoners
Publishing date: 9 December 2014
BELGRADE, 9 December 2014 – Vida Petrović Škero, a recently retired judge of the Supreme Court of Cassation, and Aleksandra Stepanović, the Head of Department for Protection of Human Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty within the Prison Administration in the Ministry of Justice received the OSCE Mission to Serbia’s 2014 Person of the Year Award at a ceremony taking place today in Belgrade...
Head of OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports parliament’s initiative to engage pupils on democracy and human rights
Publishing date: 8 December 2014
Human rights, non-discrimination and the role of the OSCE in promoting these values were among the topics discussed at a Democracy Workshop on 5 December 2014, attended by the students of the Radoje Cizmovic elementary school from Niksic and the Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Ambassador Janina Hrebickova. The workshop was organized in Podgorica by the parliament of Montenegro...
OSCE Mission concludes training for responders to domestic violence in Kosovo
Publishing date: 5 December 2014
The last in a series of five workshops on standard operating procedures for protecting people from domestic violence concluded in Prishtinë/Priština on 5 December 2014. The workshops, organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and the Kosovo Agency for Gender Equality, have trained a total of 200 police officers, social workers, victims’ advocates, doctors, shelters’ staff, teachers, judges, and prosecutors...
OSCE encourages development of partnership model to prevent domestic violence in Armenia
Publishing date: 2 December 2014