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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 helps establish first support centre for domestic violence victims in Turkmenistan
A support and assistance centre for victims of domestic violence opened in Ashgabat in April 2012 with support from the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat... ()
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... ()
Discussion on challenges for women in sports took place in Vienna
An OSCE-initiated discussion on the topic “Women in Sport – Towards Enhancing Equality” aimed at raising awareness on challenges that exist for women in sports and highlighting the commitment of the OSCE to promote gender equality, took place in Vienna on 20 April 2012...
ODIHR supports conference on increasing women’s participation in Polish politics
Strategies to raise women’s participation in Polish political life were the focus of a conference organized in Warsaw on 17 April 2012 by the Polish Institute of Public Affairs, and supported by ODIHR and the British Embassy...
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...
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...
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...
Women working for peace: Mastura Mamadsaidova
Mastura Mamadsaidova, the head of the non-governmental organization Mehrubon – an OSCE-supported women’s resource centre in Shaartuz, Tajikistan – and a practising obstetrician-gynaecologist, is no stranger to struggle...