News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Greater protection needed for children of parents sentenced to death or executed, ODIHR Director and UN Special Representative say on World Day against the Death Penalty
Publishing date: 10 October 2017
WARSAW, 10 October 2017 – The protection of children of those sentenced to death or executed should be strengthened in those OSCE countries that still practice capital punishment, Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and Marta Santos Pais, the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, said today on the occasion of the World Day against the Death Penalty...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro trains state administration employees on anti-discrimination measures against persons with disabilities
Publishing date: 6 October 2017
A two-day training seminar on the prohibition of discrimination against persons with disabilities was organized for some 25 employees of the state administration by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro in co-operation with the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights on 5 and 6 October 2017 in Bečići...
Monitoring detention conditions the focus of meeting with National Preventive Mechanism representatives co-organized by OSCE/ODIHR in Vienna
Publishing date: 4 October 2017
Discussing new standards for detention conditions and the treatment of prisoners, and elaborating on existing and potential new tools for monitoring places of detention were the key objectives of a meeting with representatives of National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs) from the OSCE and Council of
OSCE/ODIHR Director calls on Spanish authorities to ensure respect for freedoms of peaceful assembly and expression
Publishing date: 2 October 2017
WARSAW, 2 October 2017- Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), called on the Spanish authorities to ensure respect for fundamental freedoms of peaceful assembly and expression. Her call came after reports of the dispersal by force of protests and assemblies by Spanish police trying to prevent the holding of a referendum in Catalonia that had been suspended by Spain’s Constitutional Court...
OSCE/ODIHR-Venice Commission guidelines on legal personality of religious or belief communities presented at United Nations in Geneva
Publishing date: 29 September 2017
The Guidelines on the Legal Personality of Religious or Belief Communities, developed jointly by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission, were presented and discussed at the United Nations Office in Geneva on 29 September
OSCE organizes a workshop on prevention of early forced marriages for multi-disciplinary teams from Montenegrin municipalities
Publishing date: 29 September 2017
A workshop on the prevention of early forced marriages, organized by The OSCE Mission to Montenegro, was conducted in Tivat, Montenegro, on 29 September 2017.
OSCE workshop on political participation of persons with disabilities takes place in Skopje
Publishing date: 29 September 2017
Promoting the participation of persons with disabilities in political and public life was the focus of an OSCE Mission to Skopje-organized workshop that took place on 28 September 2017 in Skopje.