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Media Resource Centre opens in Dushanbe with help of OSCE Centre

Publishing date: 7 October 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Media freedom and development
DUSHANBE, 7 October 2004- A Media Resource Centre which will give Tajik journalists access to the internet, satellite television and various publications opened in Dushanbe. Supported by the OSCE Centre in...

OSCE Centre helps organize regional workshop on environmental issues in Central Asia

Publishing date: 5 October 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 5 October 2004- Representatives of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are gathering in Issyk-Kul for a workshop from 5 to 7 October to discuss ways of dealing with environmental issues in the region. They will...

OSCE Mission and Swedish Government to strengthen crime scene investigation capacity in Serbia

Publishing date: 4 October 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Policing
BELGRADE, 4 October 2004- Under an agreement signed today in Belgrade, Sweden will donate 1.35 million euros to Serbia's Interior Ministry to enhance its crime scene investigation capabilities. TheSwedish police will train 250 crime scene and forensic...

OSCE Mission sponsors Croatian police visit to Germany

Publishing date: 1 October 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Policing
ZAGREB, 1 October 2004- Five senior Croatian police officers will travel on Saturday to Germany for a one week visit to study methods of human resource management in a modern European police service. The visit is organized...

OSCE media freedom watchdog asks the US to abolish 'book embargo'

Publishing date: 30 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 30 September 2004- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media has asked the USA to abolish regulations that require publishers and authors to seek a licence from the Treasury Department to publish literature from Cuba, Iran and Sudan in...

OSCE Moldova Mission trains judges, prosecutors in combating human trafficking

Publishing date: 29 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
CHISINAU, 29 September 2004- The first of a series of six anti-trafficking training seminars for judges and prosecutors started today in Orhei, 50 kilometres north of the Moldovan capital. Investigating and prosecuting human trafficking cases while...

OSCE security forum urges destruction of thousands of tonnes of dangerous ammunition and weapons

Publishing date: 29 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation
What we do: Arms control, Countering terrorism, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 29 September 2004- The OSCE's Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC) held a special meeting today on the risks posed by poorly-guarded stockpiles of deteriorating surplus conventional weapons and munitions, left over from the Cold War era...