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OSCE Presence fosters cross-party co-operation among women parliamentarians in Albania
Publishing date: 26 March 2013
TIRANA, 26 March 2013 – The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Eugen Wollfarth, hosted a working lunch for women parliamentarians today, to highlight achievements in promoting the role of women in political life and encourage the further increase of women’s representation in the new legislature...
OSCE and Interpol discuss deepening co-operation to counter transnational threats
Publishing date: 26 March 2013
The Director of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, Alexey Lyzhenkov, met Jean-Michel Louboutin, the Executive Director Police Services of Interpol in Lyon on 26 March 2013 and discussed co-operation between the OSCE and Interpol...
OSCE Mission to BiH launches war crimes processing project
Publishing date: 26 March 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Rule of law
SARAJEVO, 26 March 2013 – The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the support of the governments of the United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland, the United States of America and Italy, and in partnership with five judicial authorities and the European Union, officially launched in Sarajevo today the “War Crimes Processing Project”...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan trains police on searching and seizing criminal proceeds
Publishing date: 26 March 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Policing
TASHKENT, 26 March 2013 – A three-day training course for police instructors on searching, identifying and seizing the proceeds of crime started in Tashkent today...
OSCE Presence to train Albanian Police on their role in elections
Publishing date: 26 March 2013
TIRANA, 26 March 2013- Seven thousand police officers will be prepared for their role in the electoral process through a series of trainings organized by the OSCE Presence and the Albanian State Police, ahead of the 23 June general elections...
Municipal elections efficiently administered and highly competitive, but playing field not always level, observers say
Publishing date: 25 March 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
SKOPJE, 25 March 2013 – The municipal elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia were highly competitive and efficiently administered, but partisan media coverage and a blurring of state and party activities did not always provide a level playing field, international observers from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities concluded in a statement issued today...
OSCE discusses harmonizing migration data in Russia and Central Asia
Publishing date: 25 March 2013
MOSCOW, 25 March 2013 – An OSCE-led seminar on improving the collection, usage and exchange of comparable data on migration in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation and Tajikistan started today in Moscow...