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Forum highlights OSCE role in bringing together regional actors, private sector to enhance maritime and inland waterways co-operation
Publishing date: 19 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities, Good governance
PRAGUE, 19 May 2008- The OSCE has a vital role in addressing the challenges arising from increasing maritime and inland waterways traffic, heard participants at a forum which opened in Prague today...
OSCE Centre trains Kyrgyz police officers on human rights
Publishing date: 16 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Human rights, Policing
BISHKEK, 16 May 2008- More than 600 police officers and representatives of civil society from the Issyk-Kul and Naryn provinces of Kyrgyzstan will complete tomorrow an OSCE-organized training course on human rights...
OSCE encourages the Azerbaijani government to facilitate the registration of the Election Monitoring Centre
Publishing date: 15 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Democratization
BAKU, 15 May 2008- The OSCE Office in Baku issued a statement today to express regret over the 14 May decision of Azerbaijan's Khatai District Court to cancel the registration of the Election Monitoring Centre, a local civil society organization...
First OSCE meeting on legal reform held in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 15 May 2008
Content type: Press release
What we do: Democratization
ASHGABAD, 15 May 2008- The first in a series of OSCE workshops aimed at providing lawmakers in Turkmenistan with tools for an effective legal reform process ended today in Ashgabad...
OSCE Warsaw conference to discuss role of constitutional justice in protecting human rights
Publishing date: 14 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
WARSAW, 14 May 2008- A conference on the role of constitutional justice in protecting human rights and upholding the rule of law in the OSCE region opened in Warsaw today...
OSCE Mission to Skopje encourages co-operation between state and local authorities to combat human trafficking
Publishing date: 13 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
SKOPJE, 13 May 2008- Fostering co-operation between state institutions and civil society to combat human trafficking and strengthening the role of the country's National Referral Mechanism Office at the local level, is the aim of a...
OSCE Centre supports parliamentary development in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 6 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Democratization
ASTANA, 6 May 2008- Parliamentary development in Kazakhstan was the topic of a roundtable meeting organized today by the OSCE Centre in Astana jointly with the Public Foundation for Parliamentary Development in Kazakhstan...