News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports enhancing regulatory legal framework for small arms and light weapons, conventional ammunition
Publishing date: 19 September 2014
BISHKEK, 19 September 2014 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the Ministry of Defence of the Kyrgyz Republic today hosted the first roundtable discussion on improving the country’s regulatory legal framework for use of small arms and light weapons (SALW) and conventional ammunition...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports international conference marking 50th anniversary of Constitutional Court
Publishing date: 19 September 2014
SKOPJE, 19 September 2014 – Some 80 constitutional court judges from 21 European countries, representatives of the the European Commission for Democracy through Law of the Council of Europe (Venice Commission), the European Court of Human Rights, as well as legal practitioners from the country and abroad will participate at an OSCE-supported three-day conference marking the 50th anniversary of the Constitutional Court in Skopje...
OSCE Office in Tajikistan trains judges and journalists on defamation issues
Publishing date: 19 September 2014
A two-day seminar involving approximately 30 judges, lawyers and journalists on issues related to defamation and libel concluded on 16 September at the premises of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator, Canada launch multi-year project to help Ukraine improve protection of human rights by courts
Publishing date: 16 September 2014
KYIV, 16 September 2014 – The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and the Government of Canada officially launched a € 2.2 million, four years project, which aims to enhance the functioning of the Ukrainian judiciary in line with international standards of human rights protection...
Albanian courts implement OSCE-initiated project to speed up trials
Publishing date: 10 September 2014
KORÇA, ALBANIA, 10 September 2014 – Judges in Korça have embraced today an OSCE-supported project aimed at reducing unreasonable delays in trials, following the positive results of the project in another court in Albania...
Legal regulation of broadcasting in focus of OSCE roundtable discussion in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 9 September 2014
ASHGABAT, 9 September 2014 – Modern trends in the legal regulation of broadcasting were discussed at an OSCE-supported roundtable that ended in Ashgabat today...
Swiss OSCE Chairmanship concludes series of four regional civil society workshops with a two-day event in Tbilisi
Publishing date: 8 September 2014
Some 40 representatives from regional civil society organizations of the South Caucasus and international NGOs took part in a discussion in Tbilisi on 3 and 4 September 2014, organized jointly by the 2014 Swiss OSCE Chairmanship and the Georgian NGO Analytical Center for Interethnic Cooperation and Consultations. The focus of the event was on the prevention of torture, the independence of the judiciary, and the institutional and legal framework to combat discrimination...