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Ambassador Adil Akhmetov, CiO Personal Representative on Combating Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims at the Ministerial Council in Athens, 2 December 2009.

OSCE Personal Representative urges participating States to take hate crimes against Muslims seriously

ASTANA, 22 February 2012 - In view of the Oslo massacre last summer and the spate of neo-Nazi serial killings in Germany, the OSCE Chairperson’s Personal Representative on Combating Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims Ambassador Adil Akhmetov expressed concerns over the feeling of insecurity among Muslim communities across the OSCE region...
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OSCE report calls for more adequate and effective criminal sanctions for domestic violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina

SARAJEVO, 22 February 2012 – Criminal sanctions for domestic violence should reflect the gravity of the offence, to ensure their effectiveness as part of a comprehensive approach to prevent and combat domestic violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina, concludes a report presented by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina today...
L-r: Gerard Keown, Deputy Director of the Irish Chairmanship Taskforce; Nizomiddin Zohidov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan; Ambassador Ivar Vikki, Head of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan; and Ambassador Adam Kobieracki, Director of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre, Dushanbe, 22 February 2012.

OSCE and Tajikistan outline priorities for co-operation in 2013

DUSHANBE, 22 February 2012 – High-ranking officials from the OSCE and the Tajik government, as well as representatives of civil society met today in Dushanbe at an annual forum to identify priorities for national and regional co-operation in 2013...

OSCE facilitates discussion on prevention of torture in Kyrgyzstan

BISHKEK, 22 February 2012 – The implementation of the Istanbul Protocol standards for the effective investigation and documentation of torture and ill treatment in Kyrgyzstan was the focus of a roundtable discussion organized today by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek in co-operation with the UN OHCHR Regional Office for Central Asia, the Soros Foundation and the US-based NGO Physicians for Human Rights... ()

OSCE Centre in Astana trains judges on anti-trafficking

ASTANA, 22 February 2012 –An OSCE-supported training seminar for judges on improving judicial practice in criminal human trafficking cases started today in Astana...
File photo: The river Dniester/Nistru near the city of Bender, 1 June 2006.

OSCE Mission to Moldova encourages joint events to commemorate 20th anniversary of Transdniestrian conflict

CHIŞINĂU, 22 February 2012 – The Acting Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova Jan Plešinger called today on the authorities on both banks of the Dniester/Nistru river to conduct joint memorial events on 2 March 2012 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Transdniestrian conflict... ()
Ambassador Pádraig Murphy, the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson for the South Caucasus, Ambassador Andrzej Tyszkiewicz, the Head of the EU Monitoring Mission and James C. O’Shea of the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the OSCE, Ergneti, 21 February 2012.

20th IPRM meeting takes place in Ergneti

ERGNETI, 21 February 2012 - The 20th meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) took place in Ergneti today. The event was co-facilitated by the EU Monitoring Mission and the OSCE...
L-r: Oliver McCoy, Democratization Programme Manager of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, Liana Sayadyan, Vice-President of Investigative Journalists NGO and Lusine Hakobyan, President of Europe in Law Association, at the presentation of a publication on violence against journalists in Armenia, Yerevan, 20 February 2012.

Violent attacks against journalists in Armenia decreased but financial pressure on media outlets up, finds OSCE Office-supported report

YEREVAN, 20 February 2012 – A report on freedom of the press and speech in Armenia during 2010 and 2011 supported by the OSCE Office was presented in Yerevan today... ()
L-r: Filaret Berikyan, Chairperson of the Inter-Institutional Commission for Combating Gender-based Violence, Deputy Minister of Social and labour issues; Oliver McCoy, OSCE Yerevan Office Democratization Programme Manager; Shoghik Sargsyan from the OSCE Office in Yerevan and Lilian Salaru, OSCE Yerevan Office Politico-Military Programme Manager, Yerevan, 17 February 2012.

OSCE Office supports discussion on domestic violence legislation in Armenia

YEREVAN, 17 February 2012 – A new draft law on domestic violence was the focus of a discussion held today with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan... ()
Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, at a news conference at the OSCE Ministerial Council in Vilnius, 6 December 2011.

Attacks against Turkish-language newspaper in Cologne, Paris threaten free reporting, says OSCE media freedom representative

PARIS, 17 February 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today condemned attacks on the Paris and Cologne offices of the Turkish-language daily newspaper Zaman and called for a thorough investigation...
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