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Serbian court and prosecution staff receives humanitarian law training under ODHIR-led War Crimes Justice Project
Publishing date: 6 July 2011
Content type: Press release
What we do: Rule of law
BELGRADE, 6 July 2011- Staff from the Serbian High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor completed today a three-day training course on international humanitarian law. The training was held as part of the War Crimes Justice Project which is led by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)...
Experts, policymakers discuss strengthening Armenian judicial independence at OSCE-organized conference
Publishing date: 28 June 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Rule of law
YEREVAN, 28 June 2011 – Identifying ways to strengthen the independence of Armenia’s judiciary is the focus of a meeting organized today by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Office in Yerevan...
Judges from former Yugoslavia and ICTY share experiences on handling of war crimes cases under OSCE/ODIHR-led project
Publishing date: 27 June 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Rule of law
BEČIĆI, Montenegro, 27 June 2011- Judges from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and their peers from the region met in Bečići today to share experiences in adjudicating war crimes cases...
ODIHR issues legal opinion on Kazakhstan's law on status of judges
Publishing date: 22 June 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Rule of law
ODIHR issued a legal opinion on Kazakhstan's Constitutional Law on the Judicial System and Status of Judges to the Kazakh Supreme Court on 21 June 2011.
Prosecutors from region, ICTY meet in Skopje to discuss war crimes cases under ODIHR-led project
Publishing date: 15 June 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Rule of law
SKOPJE, 15 June 2011 – Twenty prosecutors from across the region met with their counterparts from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) today in Skopje to exchange experiences on legal issues related to the prosecution of war crimes cases...
ODIHR's Panel of Experts on Freedom of Assembly holds annual meeting in Warsaw
Publishing date: 9 June 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
ODIHR's Panel of Experts on Freedom of Assembly, an advisory body made up of 10 members from throughout the OSCE region, held its sixth annual meeting in Warsaw on 6-7 June...
OSCE/ODIHR organizes first training for entity police investigators handling war crimes cases in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 25 May 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Rule of law
BIHAĆ, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 25 May 2011- A two-day training seminar on investigations for police investigators and prosecutors handling war crimes cases in Bosnia and Herzegovina ended in Bihać today...