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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE conducts training seminar on integration of labour migrants in northern Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 30 July 2015
PETROPAVLOVSK, Northern Kazakhstan, 30 July 2015-- A one-day training seminar on the integration of labour migrants took place today in Petropavlovsk. Its aim was to review the legal and operational framework regulating the migrants’ access to the host country’s labour market and obligations of OSCE participating States related to labour migration...
OSCE marks World Day against Trafficking in Persons by supporting public awareness campaign in Astana
Publishing date: 30 July 2015
The OSCE Programme Office in Astana, marking the World Day against Trafficking in Persons, supported a public awareness campaign on combating trafficking in human beings in Astana on 30 July 2015. The initiative was carried out in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the local NGO “Korgau” and in co-operation with the City Police Administration...
OSCE Special Representative joins UN in marking the second World Day against Trafficking in Human Beings
Publishing date: 30 July 2015
MINSK, 30 July 2015 – Human trafficking is a violation of human rights and an offence to the dignity and integrity of its victims. We must focus our efforts to protecting the most vulnerable – especially children, said the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings Madina Jarbussynova as she opened a high-level workshop in Minsk today to mark the World Day against Trafficking in Human Beings...
A number of achievements and good practices on gender equality in Russia, says OSCE Senior Gender Adviser on working visit to Moscow
Publishing date: 30 July 2015
MOSCOW, 30 July 2015- The OSCE Senior Adviser on Gender Issues, Ambassador Miroslava Beham, concluding a three-day visit to Moscow on Wednesday noted a number of achievements and good practices in gender equality in the Russian Federation, particularly in the areas of law enforcement and combatting extremism and terrorism...
OSCE Mission to BiH Acting Head commends authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina on adoption of Reform Agenda
Publishing date: 29 July 2015
SARAJEVO, 29 July 2015 – Alexander Chuplygin, Acting Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, commended today the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the adoption of the Reform Agenda...
OSCE-supported seminar for journalists on work of law enforcement institutions held in Podgorica
Publishing date: 29 July 2015
A two-day OSCE-supported seminar for journalists on work of the police, prosecutors and the judiciary took place on 28 and 29 July 2015 in Podgorica...
Santos condemns treatment of jailed Kazakhstani opposition leader
Publishing date: 29 July 2015
COPENHAGEN, 29 July 2015 – Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), the Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, today raised grave concerns over the treatment of jailed Kazakhstani opposition leader Vladimir Kozlov...