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OSCE conference on human rights and democracy opens in Warsaw
Publishing date: 19 September 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
WARSAW, 19 September 2005- The implementation of the OSCE's founding document, the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, as well as other commitments made since then are on the agenda of Europe's largest human rights and democracy conference, which opened today in...
OSCE Mission to hold conference in Belgrade on anti-corruption standards
Publishing date: 19 September 2005
BELGRADE, 19 September 2005- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro will tomorrow hold a conference on anti-corruption standards in Belgrade.
OSCE Skopje supports innovative Internet database bringing greater transparency to work of judiciary
Publishing date: 15 September 2005
SKOPJE, 15 September 2005- The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje today launched its support for a local initiative aimed at ensuring unprecedented public access to information about the country's judiciary and its work.
OSCE States hold high-level consultations on reform of the Organization
Publishing date: 13 September 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
VIENNA, 13 September 2005- A two-day, high-level meeting of the OSCE participating States has been considering wide-ranging proposals for the reform of the 55-nation body. These consultations continued a process...
OSCE Mission supports public discussion in Skopje on judiciary reform
Publishing date: 13 September 2005
SKOPJE, 13 September 2005- More than 50 representatives from national judicial institutions, as well as local and international organizations working on judicial reform, participated in a discussion yesterday in Skopje on reforming the judiciary.
OSCE Mission to help train staff for new prison in western Georgia
Publishing date: 1 September 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Policing
TBILISI, 1 September 2005- The OSCE Mission in Georgia tomorrow begins a training course to assist the country's Ministry of Justice in establishing professional standards of penitentiary management in a new prison in Kutaisi...
Swedish diplomat to head OSCE Office in Minsk
Publishing date: 12 August 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
MINSK, 12 August 2005- Åke Peterson, the former Swedish Ambassador to Ukraine, has been appointed Head of the OSCE Office in Minsk and is expected to take up his post on 29 August.