News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE PA’s Santos welcomes release of Azerbaijan’s Leyla Yunus
Publishing date: 9 December 2015
COPENHAGEN, 9 December 2015 – The Chairperson of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), today welcomed the release from prison of Azerbaijani rights activist Leyla Yunus on humanitarian grounds., 9 December 2015 – The Chairperson of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), today welcomed the release from prison of Azerbaijani rights activist Leyla Yunus on humanitarian grounds...
OSCE/ODIHR Director Link praises release of Leyla Yunus
Publishing date: 9 December 2015
WARSAW, 9 December 2015 – Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), today welcomed the release from custody of Azerbaijani human rights defender Leyla Yunus, following a request from her lawyers based on her deteriorating health...
OSCE concludes set of seminars for defence lawyers on novelties of criminal legislation
Publishing date: 4 December 2015
On 4 December 2015 in Astana, Kazakhstan, the OSCE Programme Office held the last in a series of five training seminars for defence lawyers, organized in co-operation with the Almaty Bar Association, on the novelties of the country’s criminal justice codes...
OSCE conducts seminar for judges from relocated administrative courts in Eastern Ukraine on human rights protection
Publishing date: 3 December 2015
An OSCE-supported two-day seminar on the protection of human rights and application of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for 60 judges working in the relocated administrative courts from Donetsk and Luhansk regions concluded in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, today 3 December 2015....
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports opening of press centre within Public Prosecution Office
Publishing date: 3 December 2015
The first press centre within the State Public Prosecution Office was opened in Skopje today, 3 December 2015, with the support of the OSCE Mission to Skopje. The centre aims to assist the Public Prosecution in developing its capacity to establish a sustainable and transparent approach towards the media and the general public...
OSCE autumn school on criminal law aims at enhancing legal education in Ukraine and promoting co-operation in research
Publishing date: 30 November 2015
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University organized an autumn school in Kharkiv from 23 to 25 November 2015, bringing together law professors from different universities across Ukraine to learn about the current trends in criminal law and teaching methodologies...
OSCE Mission to Serbia, ODIHR and civil society partners to follow elections of prosecutors
Publishing date: 30 November 2015
BELGRADE, 30 November 2015 – The OSCE Mission to Serbia, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the civil society organization Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM) will monitor on 1 December 2015 the elections of prosecutors to the Serbia’s State Prosecutorial Council (SPC)...