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OSCE Gender Adviser, in Kazakhstan, says women’s rights essential for lasting security

ASTANA, 16 May 2012 - Miroslava Beham, OSCE Senior Adviser on Gender Issues, started today her visit to Kazakhstan during which she will discuss gender issues and exchange experiences with Kazakhstani officials, civil society, academics and journalists...

Training course on responding to domestic violence held by OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan

TASHKENT, 25 April 2012 – A three-day training seminar organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan on the criminal justice response to domestic violence began in Tashkent today...

OSCE Project Co-ordinator assists police in combating gender-based violence in Ukraine

LVIV, Ukraine, 23 April 2012 – Law enforcement efforts in combating gender-based violence is the topic of a roundtable discussion jointly organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) and the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior that started today in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv... ()
Maj Britt Theorin, Chairperson of a Sweden-based NGO "Operation 1325" (r) and keynote speaker Detective Inspector Khizra Dhindsa representing the Association of Chief Police Officers of England and Wales (l) speaks at an OSCE-organized expert meeting with a focus on ways of empowering women in countering violent extremism and radicalization that leads to terrorism, Vienna, 12 March 2012.

OSCE highlights need to involve women in efforts to counter violent extremism, terrorist radicalization

VIENNA, 12 MARCH 2012 – Ways of empowering women in countering violent extremism and radicalization that leads to terrorism is the focus of a two-day expert meeting organized by the OSCE today in Vienna...
Minister of Labour and Social Policy Spiro Ristovski (l) and Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje Ambassador Natalya Drozd (second on the right) address the Skopje City Council on the role of women in security-related issues, Skopje, 9 March 2012.

OSCE Mission to Skopje supports gender mainstreaming in conflict prevention and resolution

SKOPJE, 9 March 2012 – The role of women in conflict prevention and peaceful conflict resolution was the topic of an OSCE-supported public event that took place in Skopje today...

OSCE Mission calls for commitment to women’s rights and gender equality

SARAJEVO, 8 March 2012 – On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina Fletcher M. Burton stressed today the need to step up efforts to promote rights of women and gender equality...
The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Irish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore, speaking at a press conference after opening the first OSCE Permanent Council meeting of the 2012 Irish Chairmanship, Vienna, 12 January 2012.

Promoting gender equality and women’s rights must be a priority for all OSCE states, says Chairperson on International Women’s Day

DUBLIN, 8 March 2012 – Promoting gender equality and ensuring women’s participation in political, public and economic spheres must be central to the work of the OSCE and all 56 participating States, said the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore today marking International Women’s Day...
Chief executive officer of the Kosovo agency for gender equality, Edona Hajrullahu, speaks at the launch of the campaign against domestic violence organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo ahead of the International Women’s Day, Prishtinë/Pristina, 7 March 2012.

OSCE Mission in Kosovo launches campaign against domestic violence, assists institutions

PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 7 March 2012 – A day ahead of the International Women’s Day, the OSCE Mission in Kosovo launched an information campaign urging the public to report cases of domestic violence, and publications to help the local institutions better assist victims of the crime... ()
Anti-trafficking and Domestic violence helpline poster

OSCE Mission in Kosovo to launch campaign against domestic violence on International Women’s Day

PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 6 March 2012 – Ahead of the International Women’s Day marked on 8 March, the OSCE Mission in Kosovo will tomorrow start a public information campaign by launching publications on domestic violence... ()
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... ()
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