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OSCE Chairperson welcomes Turkmenistan's role in promoting stability in Central Asia
Publishing date: 23 June 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
ASHGABAT, 23 June 2010- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Kazakhstan's Secretary of State and Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev, in his meetings today with the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, Deputy Prime Minister Rashid Meredov...
Regional OSCE/ODIHR expert meeting discusses challenges to judicial independence
Publishing date: 23 June 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
KYIV, 23 June 2010- Experts from the OSCE region are discussing challenges to judicial independence in Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia at an OSCE-organized workshop that started in Kyiv today...
Despite progress, more work needed to promote role of women in the security sector, say parliamentarians at Montenegro meeting
Publishing date: 22 June 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro, OSCE Secretariat
CETINJE, Montenegro, 22 June 2010- Although progress has been made in increasing the participation of women in the security sector, more work is needed to further promote their role, participants at an OSCE regional meeting for female...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports workshop for Kyrgyz journalists on covering the referendum
Publishing date: 22 June 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Media freedom and development
BISHKEK, 22 June 2010- A workshop for journalists on covering the scheduled 27 June constitutional referendum was held today with the support of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek...
OSCE role in conflict prevention and resolution should be enhanced, says Ukrainian Foreign Minister
Publishing date: 22 June 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 22 June 2010- Unresolved and potential conflicts pose the greatest threat to security in the OSCE region and form a serious challenge to the Organization's work, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko told the Permanent Council...
OSCE/ODIHR criminal justice forum for Central Asia charts directions for reform
Publishing date: 17 June 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Rule of law
DUSHANBE, 17 June 2010- The 2010 Expert Forum for Central Asia to discuss developments and trends in criminal justice reform in Central Asia and beyond opened in Dushanbe today...
OSCE Mission to Serbia hosts forum on police management training systems
Publishing date: 15 June 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Policing, Rule of law
BELGRADE, 15 June 2010- More than 50 Serbian senior police officers discussed today in Belgrade the latest trends in senior police leadership training at an OSCE-supported forum on police management training systems.