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OSCE Minsk Office organizes film programme to mark Human Rights Day

Publishing date: 10 December 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Human rights
MINSK, 10 December 2008- A week-long film programme "Dignity, Equality, Justness", organized by the OSCE Office, ended in Minsk today...

OSCE/ODIHR Director joins statement calling for better protection of rights defenders

Publishing date: 9 December 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
WARSAW, 9 December 2008- The Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Janez Lenarcic, and four other high-level international human rights representatives issued a joint statement today...

OSCE Office, Armenia sign memorandum on opening four new Aarhus centres

Publishing date: 9 December 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Environmental activities
YEREVAN, 9 December 2008- Four public environmental information centres, known as Aarhus Centres, will open in Armenia's regions, according to a memorandum of understanding signed today...

Democracy possible only if human rights assured for all, says Head of OSCE Mission in Kosovo

Publishing date: 9 December 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights
PRISHTINE/PRISTINA, 9 December 2008- The Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Werner Almhofer, issued the following statement today to mark International Human Rights Day on 10 December...

OSCE Mission to Skopje supports revised national action plan to combat human trafficking

Publishing date: 9 December 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
SKOPJE, 9 December 2008- Ambassador Natalya Drozd, the Acting Head of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje, said today she welcomed progress on the country's National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking...

OSCE Mission to Georgia organizes study visit to France for Georgian penitentiary officials

Publishing date: 9 December 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Policing
TBILISI, 9 December 2008- Officials from Georgia's Penitentiary and Probation Training Centre are in Agen, France today to meet French legal practitioners as part of an OSCE-organized study visit...

OSCE 'revitalized' at Helsinki Ministerial Council, high-level talks on European security to continue

Publishing date: 5 December 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
HELSINKI, 5 December 2008- The spirit of Helsinki has revitalized the OSCE, and the meeting of foreign ministers gave new impetus to discussions on European security challenges, said OSCE Chairman-in-Office Alexander Stubb today...