News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre supports discussion in Kazakhstan on implementation of UN recommendations on human rights
Publishing date: 22 May 2012
ASTANA, 22 May 2012- State officials, national and international experts, representatives of the national human rights institutions, academia and civil society discussed measures to implement the recommendations of the UN in the human rights field during an OSCE-supported meeting held today in Astana...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports efforts in dealing with hate crime and hate speech cases
Publishing date: 22 May 2012
SKOPJE, 22 May 2012 – Sharing best practices on how to better handle hate crime and hate speech cases is the aim of an OSCE-supported regional conference that started in Skopje today...
ODIHR trains Georgian law enforcement officers on the protection of human rights while countering terrorism
Publishing date: 18 May 2012
Georgian law enforcement officers completed a three-day training course on 18 May 2012, organized by ODIHR and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, on the protection of human rights while countering terrorism...
OSCE supports event on protecting children’s rights in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 17 May 2012
ASTANA, 17 May 2012 – A roundtable meeting co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Astana to discuss issues of preventing and combating trafficking and violence against children took place in Astana today...
OSCE/ODIHR expert panel explores challenges to freedom of peaceful assembly
Publishing date: 8 May 2012
Challenges in promoting freedom of peaceful assembly in the OSCE area are the focus of a two-day meeting of an expert panel which opened in Warsaw on 8 May 2012...
Law students in Turkmenistan discuss pre-trial stages of criminal proceedings at OSCE lecture course
Publishing date: 27 April 2012
ASHGABAT, 28 April 2012- Thirty students from the Law Faculty of the S.A. Niyazov Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs completed today in Ashgabat an OSCE-organized lecture series on human rights standards at the pre-trial stages of criminal proceedings...
OSCE must focus on areas where it can add value, says Russian Foreign Ministry Human Rights Commissioner
Publishing date: 19 April 2012
VIENNA, 19 April 2012 – In its human dimension work, the OSCE must focus on areas where it can bring added value, and pay special attention to protecting rights of national minorities, freedom of movement, combating trafficking and developing single rules of election monitoring, said Ambassador Konstantin Dolgov, the Russian Foreign Ministry Commissioner on Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law in his address to the OSCE Permanent Council today...