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OSCE/ODIHR Director highlights vital role of domestic election observers at launch of declaration at UN

Publishing date: 3 April 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
UNITED NATIONS, 3 April 2012 – Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, the ODIHR Director, today welcomed the launch of the Declaration of Global Principles for Nonpartisan Election Observation and Monitoring by Citizen Organizations at a ceremony at the United Nations Headquarters in New York...

OSCE media freedom representative calls for legal reforms after study shows 95 journalists imprisoned in Turkey

Publishing date: 2 April 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 2 April 2012- Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today presented an updated analysis on imprisoned journalists in Turkey and called for immediate reform of the nation’s media laws...

OSCE trains border officials in Tajikistan on protecting human rights while countering terrorism

Publishing date: 31 March 2012
Collections: Past Activities Related to Human Rights and Anti-terrorism
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Countering terrorism
Senior border officials from four OSCE participating states completed a five-day training course in Dushanbe on 31 March 2012. The course focused on human rights-based approach to countering terrorist threats along and at borders...

Free media and Internet vital for ensuring security, says OSCE media freedom representative to participating States

Publishing date: 30 March 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development
Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, in a report of her Office’s work to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on 29 March 2012, highlighted the important role of safeguarding free media and free Internet while ensuring security...

OSCE Office awards community policing certificates to Armenian police officers

Publishing date: 30 March 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Policing
YEREVAN, 30 March 2012 – Fifteen police officers were awarded certificates of completion for an OSCE-supported train–the-trainers course on community policing that ended today in Yerevan...

OSCE/ODIHR report recommends further reforms on judge selection in Kyrgyzstan

Publishing date: 30 March 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Democratization, Rule of law
Further reforms to the process for selecting judges in Kyrgyzstan are needed to ensure an independent judiciary, according to an OSCE report presented in Bishkek on 30 March 2012...

OSCE, EU donate equipment to improve voter registration

Publishing date: 29 March 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Elections
YEREVAN, 29 March 2012 – Thirty six computers and printers were given today to the Armenian police by the OSCE Office in Yerevan with EU financial support to help prepare for the forthcoming parliamentary and presidential elections...