News and press releases

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented two new sets of guidelines on human rights education for health workers and for human rights activists at the OSCE’s annual Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 25 September 2013...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 25 September 2013- Some 30 prosecutors from Kazakhstan’s regions are attending a three-day training seminar on prosecution in court proceedings, supported by the OSCE Centre in Astana that began today in Almaty...

While law-enforcement institutions in the OSCE region are increasingly recognizing the benefits women bring to police in serving communities, more needs to be done to address gender-based discrimination within police forces, said participants of the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 24 September 2013...

WARSAW, 23 September 2013 – The universality of human rights has to be protected in order to provide for genuine security, speakers said at the opening of the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw today...

Kyrgyzstan’s state officials, religious leaders, civil society and media representatives gathered in Bishkek on 20 September 2013 for an OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on the legal and practical aspects of safeguarding the freedom of religion or belief in the Kyrgyz Republic...

ASHGABAT, 20 September 2013 – Some 30 students from the Interior Ministry’s Institute graduated from an OSCE-supported course on international human rights standards in the process of criminal proceedings and investigations, in Ashgabat today...

ASTANA, 19 September 2013 – The OSCE Centre supported the publication of the 2012 annual report on the state of human rights in Kazakhstan and a special report on migrants’ rights in the country that were presented at the Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan today...