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Co-operation between police and public discussed in Yerevan
Publishing date: 4 June 2015
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
The role of community policing in crime prevention and strengthening police-public partnership was the focus of the conference organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan, the Armenian Police and the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) on 4 June 2015...
Osh city police and OSCE Centre in Bishkek mark International Children’s Day with awareness-raising event
Publishing date: 2 June 2015
To mark International Children’s Day, on 1 June 2015, The Osh city police, in co-operation with the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, organized an awareness-raising event for children and their parents called “My security”...
New forms of political participation should be inclusive of all groups of society, say OSCE/ODIHR youth seminar participants
Publishing date: 2 June 2015
Content type: News
What we do: Democratization, Youth
Some 30 youth representatives and activists from South-East Europe discussed ways to promote the political participation of youth in the OSCE region, including through new mechanisms such as social media, at a seminar organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), in co-operation with the OSCE Mission to Serbia, and with the support of the Serbian OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office, in Belgrade on 2 June 2015.
OSCE-supported Afghan customs training course project completed in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 1 June 2015
The OSCE Centre in Bishkek, in co-operation with the Kyrgyz and Afghan Customs Services, has completed on 29 May 2015 the 10th and final customs training-course at the Kyrgyz Customs Training Centre...
OSCE and partners support business forum to attract investment to southern Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 28 May 2015
A one-day OSCE-backed Business Forum “Osh – 2015” was held in the provincial capital Osh at the initiative of the Kyrgyz government’s representative in the region and support of country’s Investment Promotion Agency...
OSCE Mission to Skopje trains teachers on non-discrimination, hate speech and personal data protection
Publishing date: 28 May 2015
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
During the period of April – May 2015, the OSCE Mission to Skopje organized six training courses on anti-discrimination, hate speech and protection of personal data for nearly 120 teachers and professional staff from 22 high schools in Skopje, Tetovo, Gostivar, Kicevo, Struga and Prilep...
More Muslim voices in Europe condemning anti-Semitism needed, says Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Anti-Semitism
Publishing date: 27 May 2015
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Human rights
Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Anti-Semitism, Andrew Baker, stressed importance of different communities in joining forces to tackle anti-semitism.