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OSCE Office helps integrate human rights education into Tajikistan’s schools
A three-day training course on human rights education for 20 teacher trainers from Dushanbe, Sughd, Khatlon, and Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Provinces, organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan in co-operation with the Teachers’ Training Institute of the Ministry of Education, concluded on 25 May 2013 in Dushanbe...
OSCE Mission to Serbia supports development of prison administration
BELGRADE, 14 May 2013 – Ways to improve the rights of persons deprived of liberty and introduce new prisoner aftercare services that will facilitate their reintegration into society and reduce overcrowding in prisons are the focus of a two-day conference that opens in Belgrade today... ()
Good laws, political leadership necessary for media freedom, says OSCE Permanent Council Chair, in Warsaw
WARSAW, 13 May 2013 –The implementation of good laws and sharing of best practices are essential to fulfilling OSCE commitments on media freedom, the Chair of the OSCE Permanent Council, Ambassador Ihor Prokopchuk of Ukraine, told participants at a human dimension seminar on media freedom legal framework today...
Seminar on media freedom legal framework to be held in Warsaw on Monday
WARSAW, 10 May 2013 – Representatives from governments, international organizations and academia from throughout the OSCE region will gather in Warsaw from 13 to 15 May for the OSCE Human Dimension Seminar on Media Freedom Legal Framework...
Human rights, resolving protracted conflicts vital to regional security, OSCE Chairperson tells US Helsinki Commission
WASHINGTON D.C., 9 May 2013 – Protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms and making progress in resolving protracted conflicts are top priorities of his country’s OSCE Chairmanship, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara told the US Helsinki Commission at a hearing on 8 May in Washington D.C.
OSCE meeting examines ways to facilitate freer movement of people
VIENNA, 25 April 2013 – States have to find ways to promote freer movement of people, in order to facilitate greater human contacts across borders and help promote other basic rights, participants said today at the opening of a two-day OSCE meeting in Vienna...
OSCE trains border officials on protecting human rights in countering terrorism
Protecting human rights when combating transnational terrorist threats to border security was the focus of a four-day training course for border officials that ended in Dushanbe on 19 April 2013...
Better information on repatriated persons leads to better assistance: workshop of OSCE Mission in Kosovo
A two-day workshop to help municipal officials collect and process data on returnees and repatriated persons in Kosovo concluded in Mavrovo, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, on 19 April 2013...