News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Forum on humanitarian protection in cross-border emergencies held at OSCE Border Management Staff College
Publishing date: 1 October 2012
An international forum on border management in humanitarian emergencies was held at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe from 24 to 28 September 2012. It was co-organized with the Tokyo-based UNHCR Regional Centre for Emergency Management...
OSCE human rights office presents 2012 death penalty report
Publishing date: 26 September 2012
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented this year's background paper on the death penalty in the OSCE region on 26 September 2012 at the annual OSCE human rights conference in Warsaw...
Restrictions on right of association for security personnel should be lifted, say participants at OSCE human rights conference
Publishing date: 25 September 2012
Unnecessary and disproportionate restrictions on the right of association for police and military personnel should be lifted, said participants at the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 25 September 2012...
OSCE Mission to Moldova hosts human rights discussion in Transdniestria with UN’s Hammarberg
Publishing date: 25 September 2012
On 18 September 2012 the OSCE Mission to Moldova hosted a roundtable discussion in Tiraspol with civil society and local authorities representatives on human rights issues. The event was held in co-operation with Resonance, a Bender-based non-governmental organization...
OSCE/ODIHR launches new human rights education guidelines for law enforcement officials and secondary schools
Publishing date: 24 September 2012
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented two new sets of guidelines on human rights education at the OSCE’s annual Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 24 September 2012...
No security without respect for human rights and democracy, say speakers at OSCE conference
Publishing date: 24 September 2012
WARSAW, 24 September 2012 – Governments have to respect universal values of democracy and human rights in practice for there to be any stable system of security, speakers said at the opening of this year’s OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw today...
OSCE Centre holds seminar on health-related rights of prisoners in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 21 September 2012