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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 holds expert meeting on administrative justice reform in Kazakhstan
ASTANA, 29 November 2012 - An OSCE-supported expert conference on the role of administrative law and justice in human rights protection was held in Astana today...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine trains trainers on corrective work for domestic violence perpetrators
KYIV, 23 November 2012 – A OSCE-supported train-the-trainers seminar on corrective work with domestic violence perpetrators for senior teaching staff from the Ukrainian State Institute for Family and Youth Policy concluded in Kyiv 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...
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...
Strengthening freedoms of peaceful assembly, association to be focus of OSCE meeting in Vienna
VIENNA, 7 November 2012 – Representatives from the 56 OSCE participating States, civil society and international organizations will meet in Vienna tomorrow for a two-day conference on how the full implementation of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association can be protected and advanced to promote an inclusive and diverse democratic society...
OSCE Mission, Serbian Ombudsman promote rights of institutionalized persons with mental health disabilities
BELGRADE, 19 October 2012 – The protection of the rights of institutionalized persons with mental health disabilities was discussed at an OSCE conference that ended today in Belgrade... ()
Head of OSCE Presence commends peaceful demonstration
TIRANA, 18 October 2012 - The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Eugen Wollfarth, commended the peaceful nature of today’s demonstration by a group of formerly politically persecuted persons in front of the Albanian Assembly... ()
OSCE Centre facilitates dialogue on religious legislation in Kazakhstan
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 12 October 2012 – Practical aspects and the impact of the implementation of the law on religious activity and religious associations adopted a year ago were the focus of an OSCE-supported roundtable meeting held in Almaty today... ()
OSCE Mission to Serbia expresses regret for cancellation of Belgrade Pride March
BELGRADE, 4 October 2012 - The Acting Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Paula Thiede, issued the following statement on the decision by state authorities to ban public gatherings on 6 October, when the Pride March was planned... ()