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OSCE helps control export of small arms and light weapons

Publishing date: 29 September 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Conflict prevention and resolution
To prevent small arms and light weapons (SALW) from getting into the wrong hands, countries need to ensure that there are sufficient safeguards in the procedures for their export.

OSCE/ODIHR completes trial skills trainings for judiciary handling war crimes cases in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Publishing date: 29 September 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Rule of law
SARAJEVO, 29 September 2011- A training seminar on trial advocacy skills for judges, prosecutors and defence lawyers handling war crimes cases in Bosnia and Herzegovina ended in Teslić today. The training was part of the War Crimes Justice Project (WCJP), which is led by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, in partnership with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The project is funded by the European Union...

USAID, OSCE team up to help Azerbaijan combat human trafficking, promote access to justice

Publishing date: 29 September 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
BAKU, 29 September 2011- The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Office in Baku today signed a grant agreement to co-operate on combating trafficking in persons and strengthen access to justice in Azerbaijan...

OSCE human rights office presents 2011 death penalty report

Publishing date: 29 September 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented a report on the death penalty in the OSCE region on 28 September on the margins of the annual OSCE human rights conference in Warsaw...

OSCE Chairperson regrets violent incidents in northern Kosovo and calls for resumption of dialogue

Publishing date: 28 September 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
VILNIUS, 28 September 2011- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, calls for resumption of Belgrade- Prishtinë/Priština dialogue as a way forward in resolving outstanding issues...

Early warning, regional mechanisms key to countering terrorist threat, OSCE anti-terrorism head tells UN committee

Publishing date: 28 September 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
UNITED NATIONS, 28 September 2011 – Regional organizations have a critical role in putting global strategies to fight terrorism into practice, said Raphael Perl, the Head on Anti-Terrorism Issues at the OSCE Secretariat, at a special meeting of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee today...

OSCE/ODIHR begins observation of presidential and municipal elections in Bulgaria

Publishing date: 28 September 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
SOFIA, 28 September 2011 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today opened a limited observation mission to monitor the 23 October presidential and municipal elections in Bulgaria...