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OSCE trains Tajik border officials on how to detect weapons of mass destruction
Publishing date: 3 December 2018
Forty frontline officers from Tajikistan’s Border Troops and Customs Service learned how to effectively detect and eliminate weapons of mass destruction at border checkpoints.
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina launches report on ‘two schools under one roof’ concept as most visible example of discrimination in education
Publishing date: 3 December 2018
The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) presented a report titled ‘Two schools under one roof’: The Most Visible Example of Discrimination in Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 3 December 2018 in Sarajevo...
OSCE Mission trains students of Prishtinë/Priština University on property rights
Publishing date: 30 November 2018
From 26 to 30 November 2018, the OSCE Mission in Kosovo delivered training course on international standards and the Kosovo legal framework on protection of property rights to 145 law students of Prishtinë/Priština University.
OSCE Media Freedom Representative concludes visit to Moldova, encourages authorities to foster free and pluralistic media
Publishing date: 30 November 2018
Content type: Press release
What we do: Media freedom and development
CHISINAU, 30 November 2018 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir today called on the Moldovan authorities to put more efforts into strengthening media freedom and pluralism in the country as he ended a three-day visit to Moldova...
Experts discuss migrant integration practices at OSCE/ODIHR workshop in Tbilisi
Publishing date: 30 November 2018
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Migration
Challenges and good practices in the field of integrating migrants were the focus of an expert workshop held by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Tbilisi on 29 November 2018. Experts from ten OSCE participating States took part in the discussion. The
OSCE trains 20 Mongolian law enforcement personnel on detecting forged travel documents
Publishing date: 30 November 2018
Twenty Mongolian law enforcement personnel, including four women, from the country’s Forensics Institute, the national police and the border protection, customs and immigration agencies completed a five-day advanced training course in Ulaanbaatar on 30 November 2018 to increase their operational awareness in detecting forged documents. The course was organized by the Border Security and Management Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department in co-operation with the Mongolian Law Enforcement University and Austria’s Federal Ministry of the Interior...
OSCE/ODIHR supports building capacity of trainers in effective and human rights-compliant policing in Roma communities in Slovakia
Publishing date: 30 November 2018
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Policing, Roma and Sinti
Building the capacity of teaching staff to provide training on effective and human rights-compliant policing in Roma communities was the focus of a course organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Košice, Slovakia, from 27 to 30 November 2018.