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OSCE Mission to Moldova promotes best practices in peacekeeping

Publishing date: 16 May 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The OSCE Mission to Moldova hosted a seminar in Bender on peacekeeping operations on 15 May 2012...

OSCE/ODIHR presents electoral recommendations in Finland

Publishing date: 16 May 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented, from 14 to 16 May 2012 in Helsinki, the final report of the Election Assessment Mission to the 17 April 2011 parliamentary elections in Finland...

More women leaders and stronger political commitment needed to combat human trafficking, say participants at ODIHR event

Publishing date: 15 May 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
The need for more women leaders and a stronger political commitment by states to combat trafficking in human beings was highlighted at an OSCE event “Political leadership: Who can speak for the victims of trafficking?”, held on 15 May 2012...

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...

New Deputy Head of OSCE Mission to BiH has taken up her duties in Sarajevo

Publishing date: 14 May 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nina Suomalainen from Finland has taken up her duties as the Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo on 14 May 2012...

OSCE/ODIHR final report on Russia’s presidential election recommends measures to promote fairness and equality in electoral process

Publishing date: 11 May 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
The final report by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on Russia’s presidential election on 4 March 2012 concludes that the contest was clearly skewed in favour of one of the contestants and recommends measures to ensure a more balanced process...

OSCE media representative сoncerned by detention of journalists, cyber attacks on media websites in Russia

Publishing date: 10 May 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media freedom on the internet, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 10 May 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed concern today over the indiscriminate detention of journalists reporting on street protests in Moscow and recent cyber attacks on Russian media websites...