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OSCE meeting on gender equality begins with calls for increased efforts to combat violence against women

Publishing date: 5 November 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Gender equality, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
VIENNA, 5 November 2009- A special OSCE meeting on gender equality started today with participants calling for increased efforts by participating States to prevent violence against women, prosecute perpetrators and provide adequate protection...

OSCE Presence condemns violent attack against Albanian newspaper editor

Publishing date: 3 November 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development, Rule of law
TIRANA, 3 November 2009- The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Robert Bosch, condemned today a violent attack on the editor of the Tema newspaper...

Gender equality begins in family, say participants in OSCE-organized meeting in Kosovo

Publishing date: 30 October 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Economic activities, Human rights, Gender equality, Rule of law
PRISHTINE/PRISTINA, 30 October 2009- Participants in a meeting organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo today called for women's equal right to property and inheritance to be promoted by public information campaigns, better co-operation...

OSCE Office opens new legal resource centre for western Azerbaijan

Publishing date: 15 October 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Education, Rule of law
BAKU, 15 October 2009- The OSCE Office in Baku opened a Legal Resource Centre (LRC) in Ganja today to offer free legal advice to residents and support training activities for legal professionals.

OSCE media freedom representative protests over authorities' actions against one of Kazakhstan's few independent newspapers

Publishing date: 22 September 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 22 September 2009- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, said today the seizure of all copies of the independent Kazakh weekly Respublika- delovoye obozrenie and the freezing of the paper's accounts...

OSCE media freedom representative calls on Azerbaijan to improve media freedom, hopes detained bloggers may be released soon

Publishing date: 10 September 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media self-regulation, Safety of journalists
BAKU, 10 September 2009- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, today criticized the continued imprisonment of media workers in Azerbaijan and called for the repeal of recently imposed restrictive media regulations...

OSCE Centre in Ashgabat supports new domestic violence hotline

Publishing date: 7 September 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Gender equality
ASHGABAT, 7 September 2009- A domestic violence hotline initiated and supported by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat opened officially in Turkmenistan today...