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OSCE Mission, Serbian Ombudsman promote rights of institutionalized persons with mental health disabilities

19 October 2012
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

18 October 2012
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... ()
The Head of OSCE Mission to Moldova, Ambassador Jennifer Brush, speaking with the media outside Balti city hall, 11 October 2012.

Head of OSCE Mission in Moldova, in Balti, discusses decentralization, human rights

12 October 2012
The Head of OSCE Mission to Moldova, Ambassador Jennifer Brush, visited on 11 October 2012 the municipality of Balti in the north of the country and met with members of the municipal government, Municipal Council deputies and representatives of ethic minority communities... ()
Bishop Yuri Novgorodov of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kazakhstan gives an interview at an OSCE-supported roundtable meeting on the implementation of the law on religious activity and religious organizations, Almaty, 12 October 2012.

OSCE Centre facilitates dialogue on religious legislation in Kazakhstan

12 October 2012
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... ()
L-r: Goran Miletic, Programme Director for the Western Balkans at Civil Rights Defenders, Paula Thiede, the Acting Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, and Antje Rothemund, the Head of the Belgrade Council of Europe Office, discuss international community support to human rights defenders at the International Pride Forum, Belgrade, 5 October 2012.

OSCE Mission to Serbia expresses regret for cancellation of Belgrade Pride March

4 October 2012
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... ()
Participants at an international forum on border management in humanitarian emergencies held at the OSCE Border Management Staff College, Dushanbe, 24 September 2012.

Forum on humanitarian protection in cross-border emergencies held at OSCE Border Management Staff College

1 October 2012
An international forum on border management in humanitarian emergencies was held at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe from 24 to 28 September 2012. It was co-organized with the Tokyo-based UNHCR Regional Centre for Emergency Management...
The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area: Background Paper 2012 was presented at the 16th annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Warsaw, 26 September 2012.

OSCE human rights office presents 2012 death penalty report

26 September 2012
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented this year's background paper on the death penalty in the OSCE region on 26 September 2012 at the annual OSCE human rights conference in Warsaw... ()
(L-r) Oyvind Hoyen, ODIHR Human Rights Officer; Caroline Henrion, Project Officer at the European Organisation of Military Associations (EUROMIL), and Gerhard Ahlbrecht, EUROMIL Secretary General, listen as Jane Townsley, President of the International Association of Women Police, speaks at a side event during the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting on the right of association for security personnel, Warsaw, 25 September 2012.

Restrictions on right of association for security personnel should be lifted, say participants at OSCE human rights conference

25 September 2012
Unnecessary and disproportionate restrictions on the right of association for police and military personnel should be lifted, said participants at the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 25 September 2012... ()

OSCE Mission to Moldova hosts human rights discussion in Transdniestria with UN’s Hammarberg

25 September 2012
On 18 September 2012 the OSCE Mission to Moldova hosted a roundtable discussion in Tiraspol with civil society and local authorities representatives on human rights issues. The event was held in co-operation with Resonance, a Bender-based non-governmental organization... ()
(L-r) Snježana Bokulić, the Head of ODIHR’s Human Rights Department, presents ODIHR’s new human rights education guidelines for law enforcement officials and secondary schools, together with Pavel Chacuk, a Human Rights Adviser at ODIHR; Felisa Tibbitts of Human Rights Associates (HREA) and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Cristina Sganga, Human Rights Trainer and Adviser. Warsaw, 24 September 2012.

OSCE/ODIHR launches new human rights education guidelines for law enforcement officials and secondary schools

24 September 2012
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented two new sets of guidelines on human rights education at the OSCE’s annual Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 24 September 2012... ()
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