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OSCE Mission to Montenegro trains ombudsperson representatives on using digital tools and platforms for promoting content

Publishing date: 23 July 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
The use of digital tools and platforms for promoting content to the general public is the topic of a five-day training course for employees of the Institution of the Protector of Human Rights and Freedoms of Montenegro and the Agency for Electronic Media, which began on 22 July 2019 in Podgorica. The course is organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro...

OSCE trains Tajik police, prosecutors and judges on Istanbul Protocol

Publishing date: 19 July 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Human rights
The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe in co-operation with the Office of the Prosecutor General, the Ministry of Interior, the Supreme Court and other State agencies, organized a series of training courses on the Istanbul Protocol, which concluded on 13 July in Sarob, near Dushanbe. Some 150 judges, prosecutors and law enforcement officials of Tajikistan participated in the courses...

Effective multilateralism key means of addressing today’s challenges, say participants of OSCE meeting

Publishing date: 15 July 2019
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Human rights
VIENNA, 15 July 2019 – Multilateralism and co-operation lie at the core of the OSCE’ comprehensive concept of security, participants said today at the opening of a two-day OSCE meeting in Vienna...

Prompt and effective action needed to help people suffering from conflicts and human rights violations, says OSCE PA President Tsereteli in Slovakia

Publishing date: 10 July 2019
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution
STRBSKE PLESO, 9 July 2019 – Coming from Luxembourg, where nearly 300 OSCE parliamentarians had just met for the 28th Annual Session, OSCE PA President George Tsereteli (Georgia) and Secretary General Roberto Montella were among the high-level participants of the OSCE Informal Ministerial meeting convened today by Slovak Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Miroslav Lajcak in the High Tatras Mountains of Slovakia...

Anniversary of Srebrenica genocide a chilling reminder of the need to address hate crime as indicator of mass atrocities, OSCE human rights head says

Publishing date: 10 July 2019
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Tolerance and non-discrimination
WARSAW, 10 July 2019 – In honoring the victims of the Srebrenica genocide in 1995, we must ensure that such acts are never repeated by addressing early indicators of mass atrocities, such as hate crimes, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Director Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir said today, ahead of tomorrow’s anniversary of the beginning of the massacre...

OSCE supports summer school on human rights and cybersecurity in Nur-Sultan

Publishing date: 8 July 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Cyber/ICT Security, Human rights
An OSCE-supported summer school for law students and young law researchers, focusing on the relationship between human rights and cybersecurity, began on 8 July 2019 in Nur-Sultan.

OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek commemorates International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

Publishing date: 27 June 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Human rights
To commemorate the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on 26 June, the Coalition against Torture (CAT), with the support of the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, held a series of events in the cities of Bishkek and Osh.