June 2015

Ceremony
Universal Rights Awards Ceremony
This multi-mission initiative aims to honour individuals or organizations working to promote human rights, accountable governance, local government reform, and free speech in Armenia.
Conference
Water Forum at Kazakh-German University
The OSCE Programme Office will support the annual Water Forum with a specific focus on practical solutions for water governance and intersectoral co-operation. This event will bring together some 80 water experts from the state, non…
Ceremony
Press Emblem Campaign Award 2015
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, will be awarded the annual Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) prize for her mediation role in the Ukrainian crisis and her exceptional personal commitment for the promotion of…
Conference
Aarhus Centers 2015 Annual Meeting
Since 2002 the Office of the Co-ordinator of Economic and Environmental Activities, together with the OSCE field operations has been supporting the implementation of the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in…
Meeting
UNESCO Information Meeting
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, will participate in an UNESCO Information Meeting on the situation in Crimea, Ukraine. Mijatović will speak about the media freedom situation in Crimea.

Seminar
Seminar on Youth Political Participation
In co-operation with the OSCE Mission to Serbia, ODIHR is organizing a 1 day seminar on youth political participation in Belgrade for relevant stakeholders from South-East Europe.
Training
Training seminar on countering transnational organized crime, trafficking of drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors
Some 30 representatives of Kazakhstan’s regional State Revenues departments, the Prosecutor General’s Office and Border Service of the Committee for National Security will be taking part in a five-day training seminar dedicated to the best…
Conference
Human Dimension Seminar on the role of national human rights institutions (NHRIs) in promoting and protecting human rights in the OSCE area
The National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) are fundamental building blocks of the human rights architecture and their importance has been recognized in OSCE commitments. In Copenhagen in 1990 participating States pledged to “…
Conference
2015 OSCE Asian Conference
This 2015 OSCE Asian Conference will focus on the changing global security environment and visions of multilateral security co-operation in Asia. The three sessions of the conference will focus on: Session 1: Evolving threats and their…
May 2015
General event
Moot court competition
Two teams of high-school students from Yeghvard and Charentsavan, each composed of five students, will deliberate over a hypothetical criminal case. Participants have been trained on the specifics of the criminal legislation and cases prior…
Meeting
OSCE Mission to Moldova organizes first Human Rights Club in 2015
This year, the Mission will organize its first meeting of the Human Rights Club for lawyers from both banks of Dniester/Nistru River. During the meeting, participants will discuss current problems and mechanisms related to the re…
Roundtable
Afghanistan – Central Asian Perspectives on Regional Security
The objective of the event is to create a platform where the relevant subject area experts, the representatives of the government agencies, diplomatic missions, international organizations and the OSCE BMSC Border Management Staff Course…
Seminar
Regional seminar on enhancing public procurement regulation
On 28-29 May 2015, in Vienna, the EBRD, UNCITRAL and OSCE/OCEEA will co-organise a Regional Seminar on Enhancing Public Procurement Regulation. It will be held in the framework of the EBRD-UNCITRAL Initiative on Public Procurement where the…
Meeting
Meeting on mainstreaming gender considerations in disaster risk reduction planning
Ways to integrate gender-sensitive amendments to current policies that will enable men and women to better respond to natural disasters caused by floods and to improve community safety, will be the focus of the meeting. The event will…

Seminar
Fifth Seminar of the OSCE PA’s Helsinki +40 Project
The OSCE needs a strengthened presence on the ground, closer co-operation with civil society and a rededication to human rights commitments to help realize its goal of achieving comprehensive security, participants said at the OSCE…
Roundtable
Roundtable discussion on sub-legal acts on freedom of information
The purpose of the event is to discuss sub-legal acts, which regulate a unified procedure on the classification, maintenance and provision of government held information. It is expected that the draft legislation will incorporate also civil…