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ODIHR supports Ukrainian parliament’s Commissioner for Human Rights in protecting and promoting women’s rights
Publishing date: 25 June 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Gender equality
Strategies for advancing women’s rights and gender equality in Ukraine were highlighted by experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) at a workshop for officials from the office of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, in Kyiv on 25 June 2013...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine supports exchange of experience on human rights protection through constitutional justice
Publishing date: 20 June 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Rule of law
YALTA, Ukraine, 20 June 2013- Ways of protecting the rights of individuals through constitutional justice are the focus of an international conference that started in Yalta in the south of the country, today with the support of OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU)...
Collective effort, political commitment required to address conflicts, transnational threats, say participants at OSCE Annual Security Review Conference
Publishing date: 19 June 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Forum for Security Co-operation
Finding common responses to security threats and challenges as the Organization moves towards a Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian security community was the topic of the OSCE Annual Security Review Conference that started in Vienna on 19 June 2013...
Trainers in Ukraine prepared by OSCE will teach social service providers to assist trafficking victims
Publishing date: 19 June 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
KYIV, 19 June 2013- Twenty-four trainers were prepared to upgrade skills and knowledge of social services staff, including state officials and NGO activists, in providing assistance to victims of human trafficking at an event in Kyiv, organised by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) from 17 to 19 June 2013...
OSCE Chairperson meets with OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs
Publishing date: 14 June 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
KYIV, 14 June 2013 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara received today the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassadors Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Jacques Faure of France, and Ian Kelly of the United States as well as the Personal Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office on the conflict dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk...
Diplomatic community must take responsibility for prevention of trafficking for domestic servitude, says OSCE Special Representative in Kyiv
Publishing date: 14 June 2013
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, at a workshop in Kyiv held from 12 to 13 June 2013 urged the Organization’s participating States to take concrete steps to prevent the little-known phenomenon of trafficking for domestic servitude in diplomatic households...
OSCE Secretary General, in Kyiv, meets President, Foreign Minister of Ukraine
Publishing date: 11 June 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier visited Kyiv from 10 to 11 June 2013 where he met with President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara...