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OSCE Project Co-ordinator produces information cards for foreigners entering Ukraine to help stop human trafficking and exploitation
Publishing date: 15 May 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
Arrival information cards produced by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) in co-operation with the country’s Ministry of Interior and State Border Guard Service will be distributed ahead of and during the European football championship co-hosted by Ukraine and Poland in June 2012...
OSCE, UNODC hold joint conference on the terrorist use of explosives
Publishing date: 10 May 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
VIENNA, 10 May 2012 – A two-day conference aimed at improving the control of explosive substances in order to hinder terrorists’ access to them, organized by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) started in Vienna today...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine launches campaign to help stop gender-based violence
Publishing date: 1 May 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Gender equality
An outdoor awareness-raising campaign to prevent gender-based violence started on 1 May 2012 with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU)...
OSCE Chairperson condemns blasts in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
Publishing date: 27 April 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
DUBLIN, 27 April 2012 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore, condemned the blasts in Dnipropetrovsk today...
OSCE Mission to Moldova welcomes resumption of railway traffic across Transdniestria
Publishing date: 27 April 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
CHISINAU, 27 April 2012- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova welcomed today the resumption of railway traffic across Transdniestria after a six year hiatus, officially agreed by Moldovan Prime Minister Vladimir Filat and Transdniestrian leader Yevgeny Shevchuk...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator assists police in combating gender-based violence in Ukraine
Publishing date: 23 April 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Gender equality, Policing
LVIV, Ukraine, 23 April 2012 – Law enforcement efforts in combating gender-based violence is the topic of a roundtable discussion jointly organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) and the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior that started today in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv...
OSCE starts removal of 2000 tonnes of toxic rocket fuel component from Ukraine ahead of European football championship
Publishing date: 4 April 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation
SHEVCHENKOVE, Ukraine, 4 April 2012- The first shipment of a toxic rocket fuel component stored in deteriorating containers at a military base in Eastern Ukraine was safely loaded on to 14 railways tanks today as part of an OSCE-supported project...