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Respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms forms a key part of the OSCE's comprehensive security concept. The OSCE monitors the human rights situation in its 57 participating States.

Students from the Institute of International Relations at Turkmenistan’s Foreign Ministry take part in an OSCE-supported course on the international protection of human rights, Ashgabat, 30 November 2012.

Students discuss international human rights protection at OSCE-supported course in Turkmenistan

ASHGABAT, 30 November 2012 – Forty senior students of the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan attended an OSCE-supported course on the international protection of human rights that concluded in Ashgabat today...

OSCE Centre in Astana supports discussion on countering terrorism

ASTANA, 22 November 2012 – An OSCE-supported one-day international conference on countering terrorism, which brought together some 50 parliamentarians, international and national experts, academics, and representatives of law enforcement agencies, was held at premises of Majilis of the Parliament of Kazakhstan in Astana today...
Snježana Bokulić, Head of ODIHR's Human Rights Department, presents a report on monitoring freedom of peaceful assembly in selected OSCE participating States at an event at the Hofburg in Vienna, 9 November 2012.

OSCE participating States should do more to protect and facilitate peaceful assemblies, concludes ODIHR monitoring report

OSCE participating States should protect and facilitate peaceful assemblies, and restrictions should be proportionate and only imposed when necessary, says a report released by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Vienna on 9 November 2012...
Maina Kiai, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Assembly and Association, giving his keynote address at the OSCE's Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Freedom of Assembly and Association, Vienna, 8 November 2012.

OSCE meeting addresses challenges and good practices on freedoms of peaceful assembly and association

VIENNA, 8 November – Governments should welcome new technologies as an important means to facilitate, protect and promote the fundamental rights to peaceful assembly and association, civil society participants said at the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting, which opened today in Vienna...
Yuri Dzhibladze of Russia, President of the Centre for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights, gives his keynote address at the opening session of a civil society forum on the freedom of assembly and association, Vienna, 7 November 2012. The forum was organized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.

Good practices, challenges to freedom of assembly and association highlighted at civil society forum

Promoting the freedom of assembly and association, as well as the challenges faced in exercising this fundamental right, were the focus of a forum for civil society representatives organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Irish OSCE Chairmanship on 7 November 2012...
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