By Reinhold Lopatka, OSCE PA Vice-President and Special Representative for Parliamentary Dialogue on Ukraine A s Russian military forces crossed the Ukrainian border on 24 February 2022, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly was gathering in Vienna for the first day of its 21st Winter Meeting. Although tensions had been rising and…

By Dr. Hedy Fry, OSCE PA Special Representative on Gender Issues As we commemorate 16 days of activism against gender-based violence, the multifaceted challenges women face in the OSCE region are exacerbated by the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine. The gendered economic impacts…

By Pere Joan Pons, Chair of the OSCE PA’s General Committee on Economic Affairs, Science, Technology and Environment The COP26 may be over, but the hard work of substantially reducing greenhouse gases and effectively addressing the climate crisis is just getting started. In Glasgow, the nations of the world agreed…

By Margareta Cederfelt, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly It was with deep gratitude and a profound sense of responsibility that I was elected President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly last month. Even in “usual” times, it would be a great challenge to chair an international assembly of more than…

By Michael Georg Link (MP, Germany) and Kari Henriksen (MP, Norway) With all that has transpired in recent weeks, it feels like ages ago that we led the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)’s international election observation mission to the United States, concluding that the elections were well…