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OSCE Mission promotes enhanced co-ordination between Assembly of Kosovo and executive structures
Publishing date: 28 June 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
To improve the quality of the legislative process and effective oversight of the executive, the Assembly of Kosovo and the government should undertake realistic and co-ordinated legislative planning, avoid urgent procedures and respect the role of the opposition, concluded participants of an OSCE Mission conference on relations between the legislative and executive held in Prishtinë/Priština on 27 June 2012...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan supports drafting new media law
Publishing date: 28 June 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Media freedom and development
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan together with the Parliament of Uzbekistan organized an international roundtable meeting in Tashkent on 26 June 2012 on the economic base for the mass media in Uzbekistan. This was a contribution to the drafting of the new media law which is planned to be presented to the Parliament for adoption later this year...
Investigations into CIA use of extraordinary rendition to be debated in Monaco
Publishing date: 28 June 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 28 June 2012 – A resolution now before the 56-country OSCE Parliamentary Assembly calls for the United States to co-operate with European investigations into the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s extraordinary rendition programme, which may include abduction and torture of alleged terrorists, and the use of secret prisons in Europe...
OSCE Centre in Astana advocates for child trafficking prevention
Publishing date: 28 June 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
ASTANA, 28 June 2012 – An OSCE-organized international conference to share best practices and experience in preventing trafficking in children in vulnerable groups was held in Astana today...
OSCE Mission in Kosovo helps improve functioning of Municipal Community Safety Councils
Publishing date: 28 June 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
From 25 to 27 June 2012, representatives of Ministries of Interior, of Local Government Administration, of Economy and Finance and other stakeholders reviewed and finalised new administrative rules for the Municipal Community Safety Councils in an OSCE-supported workshop that took place in Durres, Albania...
OSCE supports use of renewable energy in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 28 June 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
TASHKENT, 28 June 2012 – The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan today organized a debate on a draft renewable energy law, that aims to boost the development of renewable energy sources, especially solar energy, wind, biogas and hydro power...
ODIHR’s training programme on combating hate crimes presented to Association of European Police Colleges
Publishing date: 27 June 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented its specialized police training programme on hate crimes to the Executive Committee of the Association of European Police Colleges (AEPC) in Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-D'or in France on 27 June 2012...