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Protection of Montenegrin cultural property focus of OSCE-supported seminar

Publishing date: 5 November 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro
What we do: Democratization
Protection of cultural heritage by creating cultural property databases to prevent trafficking in cultural property was the focus of the seminar for seven Montenegrin institutions on 5 November 2019 in Podgorica...

Strengthening regional co-operation to prevent torture and ill-treatment in police custody focus of OSCE/ODIHR event in Strasbourg

Publishing date: 5 November 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
The protection of people in police custody from torture and other ill-treatment, and ensuring safeguards such as access to a lawyer and effective legal representation during criminal investigations, were the focus of a regional meeting of representatives of national preventive mechanisms (NPMs) and human rights defenders active in the fight against torture, which took place in Strasbourg on 5 November 2019.

OSCE Mission assists Moldova with designing new school course on the Holocaust in the local context

Publishing date: 4 November 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Education, Tolerance and non-discrimination
OSCE supported a workshop on the use of a methodological guide for an optional high school course “Holocaust: the History and Lessons of Life”. Over 30 history and civil education teachers attended the training course on 31 October and 1 November 2019 in Chisinau.

25th Staff Course concludes at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe

Publishing date: 4 November 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management
The OSCE Border Management Staff College (BMSC) concluded its 25th Border Management Staff Course in Dushanbe on 1 November 2019...

OSCE builds capacity of Central Asian border officials on analytical research and information sharing to boost border security in the region

Publishing date: 4 November 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management
Border officials from Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan completed a one-week workshop on analytical research and information sharing practices on 25 October 2019 in Dushanbe. The training provided the 15 participants with skills for efficient analysis of risks and threats, and tools for information sharing between border protection agencies to better prevent border incidents in the region. The training was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe.

OSCE Mission to Montenegro marks the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists

Publishing date: 1 November 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro
What we do: Media freedom and development
The safety of journalists is of utmost importance for the work of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro and it fully endorses the commitments made by Montenegro and other OSCE participating States at the OSCE Ministerial Council on the Safety of Journalists in December 2018.

OSCE supports conference on modernizing media industry on the occasion of Information and Press Day in Kyrgyzstan

Publishing date: 1 November 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Media freedom and development
Some 230 representatives of the Office of the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan, press services of government bodies, independent media, academia, and international organizations took part in the second Annual Partnership Media Conference on 31 October 2019 in Bishkek.