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Settlement colonies in Kyrgyzstan to open income-generation units with OSCE support
ANANYEVO, Kyrgyzstan, 14 June 2013 – A farm in a settlement colony in Kyrgyzstan was officially launched today in the Colony 44 in the village of Ananyevo in Issyk-Kul region of the country... ()
Head of OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina calls for permanent solution on Single Reference Number issue for newborn children
SARAJEVO, 14 June 2013 - The Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Fletcher M. Burton, today welcomed that a short-term solution was found to enable a three-month BiH-born girl to be transported to a clinic in Germany for urgent medical treatment. He urged Parliamentarians to reach a compromise solution on the Single Reference Number for all new-borns in the country which would allow the children to be issued identity documents...
OSCE trains Armenian lawyers on preparing third party submissions
YEREVAN, 14 June 2013 – Third party submissions in constitutional and international human rights procedures, and the enforcement of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgments will be discussed at a two-day workshop organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan together with the Armenian Chamber of Advocates that started in Yerevan today... ()
Annual report on OSCE court monitoring presented in Montenegro
Several court monitoring reports were presented at a conference in Montenegro on 10 June 2013... ()
Ukrainian officials, civil society members to learn at OSCE events about new rules for registration of associations
CHERNIVTSI, Ukraine, 10 June 2013 - The OSCE Project Co-ordinator and Ukraine’s State Registration Service launched today a series of six regional information seminars to familiarize public servants and third sector activists with new registration procedures for civil society organizations... ()
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine trains judges in legal writing and time management
Training seminars for Ukraine’s newly appointed administrative court judges started in Kyiv on 10 June 2013 with the support of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU)... ()
OSCE Mission to Montenegro to present Annual Court Monitoring Reports
PODGORICA, 7 June 2013 – Annual Court Monitoring Reports based on the data collected from September 2011 to December 2012, and two thematic reports - on detention frequency and justification of ordering detention, as well as on monitoring enforcement proceedings - will be presented in Podgorica on Monday, 10 June...
Training for lawyers held by OSCE in Azerbaijan
A two-day training course for 25 lawyers organized by the OSCE took place in Baku on 6 June 2013... ()
Head of OSCE Mission to BiH welcomes improved co-operation between Croatia and BiH war crimes prosecutors
SARAJEVO, 3 June 2013 – The Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Fletcher M. Burton, welcomed today the signing of a protocol between the State Attorney's Office of Croatia and the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina on co-operation in the prosecution of perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide...
OSCE/ODIHR trains legal professionals from Bosnia and Herzegovina on advocacy in war crimes trials
Thirty judges, prosecutors and defence counsel from across Bosnia and Herzegovina attended advance trial advocacy training from 29 to 31 May 2013 in Sarajevo organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and its partners...