News and press releases

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku and Azerbaijan’s Justice Academy organized a two-day train-the-trainers course on 1 and 2 December 2014, focusing on the legal norms of preventing domestic violence...

The protection of human rights defenders in Hungary and their work were the focus of a meeting organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Budapest on 27 and 28 November 2014. The event marked the 20th anniversary of the Budapest Document, “Towards a Genuine Partnership in a New Era”, in which OSCE participating States specifically emphasized the need to protect human rights defenders.

BRUSSELS, 28 November 2014 – International standards and national practices in the area of freedom of religion and belief were discussed during an OSCE-supported working visit to Belgium that concluded in Brussels today...

CHISINAU, 28 November 2014 – The OSCE Mission to Moldova today in Chisinau hosted the concluding meeting of this year of the Human Rights Club for lawyers from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River. This was the last in a series of six meetings held in 2014 out of which three meetings were held in Chisinau and three in Tiraspol...

Respect for human rights in counter-terrorism policing was the focus of a training organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 26 and 27 November 2014 in Warsaw, Poland.

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo launched on 26 November 2014 in Prishtinë/Priština an anti-domestic violence campaign dubbed “Real man never hit women”...

The concluding roundtable meeting in the framework of an OSCE-supported three-year project Say No to Violence took place on 25 November 2014 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...