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Women’s inclusion in negotiation processes focus of side event at Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Conference
Publishing date: 7 September 2023
Developing strategies for the inclusion of women in formal negotiation processes was the focus of a side event organized by OSCE 2023 Chairpersonship of North Macedonia with the Secretariat's Gender Issues Programme during the Chairpersonship’s Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Conference in Tetovo on 5 September.
Expanding partnership to overcome disparities and enhance gender equality at heart of OSCE Chairpersonship’s conference
Publishing date: 6 September 2023
TETOVO, 6 September 2023- Strengthening global partnership and taking collective action to further promote gender equality across the OSCE region was the focus of the first Chairpersonship’s Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Conference, which took place on 5 and 6 September in Tetovo, North Macedonia.
OSCE supports the regulation of correctional services for domestic violence perpetrators in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 6 September 2023
On 6 September 2023, The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe (the Office) supported the Ministry of Health and Social Protection in organizing the second meeting of the Working Group on Regulation Mechanisms to Prevent Domestic Violence. The event was attended by 28 (16 men, 12 women) representatives of Tajikistan's government and civil society organizations with roles in the field of preventing and combatting domestic violence, and providing support services to victims.
Op-Ed by Ambassador Brian Aggeler on GBV in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 4 September 2023
The scourge of domestic violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina demands an urgent response. On August 29, the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina hosted a distinguished gathering of ministers and other key leaders from across the country. We were pleased to host the Speaker of the BiH Parliament, the President of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of BiH, the Federation Minister of the Interior, Cantonal Ministers of Justice and Interior, police representatives from relevant agencies and others together around one table. Their joining us in such numbers reflected our shared recognition of a serious problem facing this country: the terrible scourge of domestic abuse. We spoke not as bureaucrats but as people facing a challenge that harms many among us.
OSCE trains trainers on domestic violence prosecution in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 1 September 2023
From 28 August to 1 September 2023, the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe (the Office) organized a five-day training of trainers for the Institute for advanced training under the General Prosecutor’s Office in Dushanbe. The training brought together 8 participants, including seven management and teaching staff of the Institute for advanced training of prosecutors in Tajikistan and a representative from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
OSCE Mission to BiH Initiates Comprehensive Dialogue to Combat Gender-Based Violence
Publishing date: 29 August 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Gender equality, Rule of law
With compassion for the families of the victims of recent tragic events in Gradačac, Živinice and Bijeljina, the OSCE Mission to BiH hosted today in Sarajevo the Speaker of the BiH Parliament House of Representatives, ministers and representatives from the state, entities', Brčko District of BiH and cantonal levels, the President of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina, justice and interior ministries, and gender institutional mechanisms to address the pressing issue of gender-based violence.
Head of OSCE Mission to BiH meets Tuzla Canton Officials to discuss gender-based violence
Publishing date: 28 August 2023
Following the recent tragic cases, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Brian Aggeler, conducted a series of meetings in Tuzla, aimed at discussing the alarming situation related to the ongoing challenge of gender-based violence.