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OSCE joins 16 Days of Activism campaign, calls for immediate action to eliminate violence against women and girls
Publishing date: 25 November 2023
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Secretary General
What we do: Gender equality
SKOPJE/VIENNA/WARSAW, 25 November 2023- Launching the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence, OSCE leaders called on participating States to step up their efforts to eliminate violence against women and girls, end impunity and support survivors.
Prevention and fight against femicide in focus of OSCE-organized conference
Publishing date: 24 November 2023
On 24 November, OSCE participating States met in Vienna at an event hosted by the Secretary General to seek an end to the scourge of femicide and to develop a roadmap to end the killing of women, merely for being women.
OSCE Mission to Montenegro works with journalism students on how to report on all forms of violence against women and presents newest research on how media report on it
Publishing date: 24 November 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro
What we do: Gender equality, Media freedom and development
How to investigate and report on gender-based violence with a victim-centred approach, was the focus of a training course the OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized for students from the Media Studies and Journalism Department of the Faculty of Political Science on 23 November.
OSCE Mission, Council of Europe host high-level roundtable on strengthening Assembly’s role in monitoring ‘Istanbul Convention’ implementation in Kosovo
Publishing date: 23 November 2023
The OSCE Mission in Kosovo, in co-operation with the Council of Europe and the Kosovo Assembly, organized on 22 November 2023 in Prishtinë/Priština a high-level panel on the role of the Assembly in monitoring the implementation of the Istanbul Convention. Preceding the “16 Days of Activism against
OSCE-supported campaign against gender-based violence launched in Montenegro, with participation of members of national football team
Publishing date: 21 November 2023
See for yourself, you’re not small boy – is a title of the campaign the OSCE Mission to Montenegro launched on 21 November in partnership with the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, NGO Women’s Safe House and the Football Association of Montenegro.
OSCE conducts train-the-trainer course for facilitators of Women Resource Centres in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 17 November 2023
An OSCE-organized five-day train-the-trainers course (ToT) for facilitators of Women’s Resource Centres (WRCs) concluded on 17 November 2023 in Dushanbe.
OSCE training strengthens criminal justice responses to violence against women and girls in Albania
Publishing date: 17 November 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Gender equality, Policing
The OSCE delivered a national training course on gender-responsive policing of violence against women and girls from 13 to 17 November in Riviera Golem, Albania.