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OSCE Centre in Ashgabat organizes visits to Estonia and Netherlands on handling individual complaints
ASHGABAT, 31 May 2012 – Representatives of the Turkmen National Institute of Democracy and Human Rights under the President of Turkmenistan completed today an OSCE-organized visit to Estonia and the Netherlands on practices in processing individual human rights complaints and communications... ()
Head of OSCE Mission calls on Kosovo institutions to improve humanitarian bus transportation
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 30 May 2011 – Kosovo institutions provide communities and other vulnerable groups with much needed humanitarian transportation services, but a lack of coordination and procedural oversight have left the service unresponsive to the evolving needs of users, concludes an OSCE report published today... ()
OSCE Centre supports discussion in Kazakhstan on implementation of UN recommendations on human rights
ASTANA, 22 May 2012 - State officials, national and international experts, representatives of the national human rights institutions, academia and civil society discussed measures to implement the recommendations of the UN in the human rights field during an OSCE-supported meeting held today in Astana... ()
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports efforts in dealing with hate crime and hate speech cases
SKOPJE, 22 May 2012 – Sharing best practices on how to better handle hate crime and hate speech cases is the aim of an OSCE-supported regional conference that started in Skopje today...
ODIHR trains Georgian law enforcement officers on the protection of human rights while countering terrorism
Georgian law enforcement officers completed a three-day training course on 18 May 2012, organized by ODIHR and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, on the protection of human rights while countering terrorism...
OSCE/ODIHR expert panel explores challenges to freedom of peaceful assembly
Challenges in promoting freedom of peaceful assembly in the OSCE area are the focus of a two-day meeting of an expert panel which opened in Warsaw on 8 May 2012...
Law students in Turkmenistan discuss pre-trial stages of criminal proceedings at OSCE lecture course
ASHGABAT, 28 April 2012 - Thirty students from the Law Faculty of the S.A. Niyazov Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs completed today in Ashgabat an OSCE-organized lecture series on human rights standards at the pre-trial stages of criminal proceedings... ()
OSCE must focus on areas where it can add value, says Russian Foreign Ministry Human Rights Commissioner
VIENNA, 19 April 2012 – In its human dimension work, the OSCE must focus on areas where it can bring added value, and pay special attention to protecting rights of national minorities, freedom of movement, combating trafficking and developing single rules of election monitoring, said Ambassador Konstantin Dolgov, the Russian Foreign Ministry Commissioner on Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law in his address to the OSCE Permanent Council today...
OSCE Mission, Directorate for Care of Refugees and Red Cross sign memorandum of understanding for integration of displaced persons
PODGORICA, 29 March 2012 – A memorandum of understanding between the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, the Bureau for the Care of Refugees and the Red Cross of Montenegro will be signed in Podgorica tomorrow...