How the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) works?

Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the world's largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization that works in the area of arms control and the promotion of human rights, freedom of the press and fair elections.

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The organization has its roots in the 1973 Conference Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE). The collapse of the Soviet Union required a change of role for the CSCE. The Charter of Paris for a New Europe, signed on November 1990, marked the beginning of this change, with the changes capped by the renaming of the CSCE to OSCE on 1 January 1995, accordingly to the results of conference held in Budapest, Hungary, in 1994. It has headquarters in Vienna, Austria.

How Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) works?

OSCE participating States enjoy equal status and take decisions by consensus. The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly is made of more than 300 parliamentarians from the OSCE’s 57 States, offering parliamentary inputs and taking action on OSCE-related work and facilitating co-operation lawmakers. The Personnel Representatives are tasked by the chair to work on the preventing and managing conflicts in the OSCE region, and to ensure co-ordination in specific areas like gender and youth issues, and to promote tolerance and non-discrimination.

Members of Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

Albania; Andorra; Armenia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Belgium; Bosnia and Herzegovina ; Bulgaria; Canada; Croatia; Cyprus; Czech Republic , Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Georgia; German)  Greece; Hungary; Iceland; Ireland; Italy; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Latvia; Liechtenstein; Lithuania ; Luxembourg; Macedonia; Malta; Moldova; Monaco; Mongolia; Montenegro; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Russia; San Marino; Serbia; Slovakia Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Tajikistan; Turkey;   Turkmenistan; Ukraine; United Kingdom; United State; Uzbekistan and Vatican City.

Partners for co-operation

Algeria; Egypt; Israel.  Jordan; Morocco; Tunisia; Japan, South Korea, Thailand; Afghanistan and Australia.