News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE/ODIHR Director Link welcomes latest attempt by US President Obama to bring about closure of Guantanamo Bay detention facility
Publishing date: 24 February 2016
WARSAW, 24 February, 2016 – Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), today welcomed the move by United States President Barack Obama to send to Congress a plan to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay...
Public administration reform know-how shared at OSCE Centre in Bishkek–organized study visit to Georgia
Publishing date: 24 February 2016
TBILISI, 24 February 2016 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek, in co-operation with the Justice Ministry of Georgia organized a three-day study visit of eight Kyrgyz Government officials to Tbilisi from 22 to 24 February 2016 to exchange experiences on reforms to public and municipal administration...
OSCE Mission to Serbia, ODIHR and civil society partners to follow election of judges to High Judicial Council
Publishing date: 18 December 2015
BELGRADE, 18 December 2015 – The OSCE Mission to Serbia, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and civil society organization Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM) are to follow the election on 21 December of judges to Serbia’s High Judicial Council...
OSCE-supported conference on accessibility of public buildings for persons with disabilities organized in Budva
Publishing date: 18 December 2015
The accessibility of municipal public buildings for persons with disabilities was the focus of a two-day conference organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro in partnership with the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism and the Union of Municipalities of Montenegro on 16 and 17 December in Budva...
OSCE Mission to BIH supports meeting of the Inter-Agency Working Group on election reform
Publishing date: 17 December 2015
KONJIC, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 17 December 2015 – The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, in co-operation with BiH Parliamentary Assembly and BiH Central Election Commission (CEC), organized the ninth two-day meeting of the Inter-Agency Working Group on changes to election legislation in BiH which concluded today in Konjic...
OSCE Mission to Skopje hosts Law Faculty students from Stip
Publishing date: 16 December 2015
Some 30 students and professors from the Law Faculty of the Goce Delcev University in Stip visited the premises of the OSCE Mission to Skopje on 16 December 2015 to learn about the work of the Mission, particularly in the field of rule of law and good governance...
OSCE supports training course on trial monitoring for civil society organizations
Publishing date: 10 December 2015
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and USAID’s “Fair Justice” project organized a two-day training course for 22 representatives of civil society organizations on trial monitoring, which concluded on 10 December 2015 in Kyiv...