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(L-r) Adam Rotfeld, the former Foreign Minister of Poland, addresses the Opening Plenary of the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, as Douglas Wake, the First Deputy Director of OSCE/ODIHR, and Frank Cogan, the Head of the Irish OSCE Chairmanship Taskforce, listen. Warsaw, 24 September 2012.

No security without respect for human rights and democracy, say speakers at OSCE conference

24 September 2012
WARSAW, 24 September 2012 – Governments have to respect universal values of democracy and human rights in practice for there to be any stable system of security, speakers said at the opening of this year’s OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw today... ()

OSCE Centre holds seminar on health-related rights of prisoners in Turkmenistan

21 September 2012
ASHGABAT, 21 September 2012 – Representatives of penitentiary institutions from across Turkmenistan participated in an OSCE-supported course on health-related rights of prisoners in Ashgabat today... ()

OSCE Centre supports publication of report on human rights in Kazakhstan

19 September 2012
On 19 September 2012, Ambassador Natalia Zarudna, the Head of the OSCE Centre in Astana, spoke at a presentation of the 2011 Annual Human Rights Situation Report translated and published with the support from the Centre... ()

OSCE Office promotes shadow reporting to protect human rights in Azerbaijan

14 September 2012
BAKU, 14 September 2012 - Some 25 civil society activists are learning about using alternative and shadow reports in advocacy and co-operation with international human rights institutions at a three-day OSCE-supported workshop that started today. The OSCE is co-sponsoring the event with the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) and Counterpart International supported by USAID... ()
Acting Head of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek Anders Troedsson, First Deputy Chairman of GSIN Kubanychbek Kinibaev, Counsellor to the Chairman of GSIN Kalybek Kachkanaliev, Chairperson of the Public Oversight Council Cholpon Omurkanova, Director of Freedom House in Kyrgyzstan Stuart Kahn and Deputy Chairperson of the Public Oversight Council Tolekan Ismailova, Bishkek, 12 September 2012.

OSCE supports human rights monitoring in pre-trial detention facilities and penitentiaries in Kyrgyzstan

12 September 2012
A report on monitoring human rights in remand prisons and penitentiaries under Kyrgyzstan’s state penitentiary service GSIN was presented at a roundtable discussion on 12 September 2012 in Bishkek...
Rezarta Schuetz, the Senior Rule of Law Officer at the OSCE Office in Skopje, listening as Mihail Gotovski, the Project Co-ordinator for the Coalition All for Fair Trials NGO in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, speaks at the ODIHR trial-monitoring meeting, Istanbul, 10 September 2012.

ODIHR holds annual trial monitoring meeting with OSCE field operations and NGOs in Istanbul

10 September 2012
Representatives from OSCE field missions and NGOs shared experiences and exchanged good practices at the annual trial monitoring meeting held by ODIHR in Istanbul on 10 September 2012...

Head of OSCE Presence in Albania visits prison, appeals for better detention conditions

7 September 2012
The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Eugen Wollfarth, paid a visit to the Zaharia prison in Kruja, on 7 September 2012, to assess the living conditions of the detained persons... ()
L-r: Jeannette Kloetzer, the Deputy Head of the OSCE Centre in Astana, Banu Nurgaziyeva, Director of the Socio-Political Department at the Ministry of Culture and Information and Yerbolat Sembayev, Deputy Director of the Multilateral Co-operation Department at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, during a meeting to discuss the drafted sixth and seventh periodic reports on implementation of the International Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Astana, 14 August 2012.

OSCE Centre in Astana supports discussion on countering discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance

14 August 2012
ASTANA, Kazakhstan, 14 August 2012 – Some 40 representatives of state agencies and non-governmental organizations gathered at a roundtable meeting today to discuss the combined sixth and seventh periodic reports of Kazakhstan on the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination... ()
Participants at a two-day OSCE-supported training seminar for police officers promoting awareness of international human rights standards and the role of the police in ensuring and protecting human rights opened, Tashkent, 8 August 2012.

OSCE helps mainstream human rights into training for police officers in Uzbekistan

8 August 2012
TASHKENT, 8 August 2012 - A two-day OSCE-supported training seminar for police officers promoting awareness of the international human rights standards and role of the police in ensuring and protecting human rights opened in Tashkent today...
Participants during an OSCE-organized training event on the European Court of Human Rights for 25 lawyers, civil society representatives and journalists from Transdniestria, Vadul lui Vodă, 27 July 2012.

OSCE trains Transdniestrian lawyers on European Court of Human Rights

1 August 2012
The OSCE Mission to Moldova organized a training event on the European Court of Human Rights for 25 lawyers, civil society representatives and journalists from Transdniestria from 27 to 29 July 2012...
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