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OSCE/ODIHR experts to visit Kazakhstan to discuss draft law on freedom of religion

Publishing date: 21 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
WARSAW, 21 November 2008- A group of international experts will visit Kazakhstan on 24 and 25 November to discuss the country's draft law on freedom of religion...

OSCE Mission-supported review of training for local government staff presented in Skopje

Publishing date: 21 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization
SKOPJE, 21 November 2008- An external review of the training given to municipal staff throughout the country between 2004 and 2007, supported by the OSCE Mission, will be presented in Skopje today...

OSCE Mission to Serbia, Judicial Training Centre organize course on crime scene investigation

Publishing date: 21 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Policing, Rule of law
BELGRADE, 21 November 2008- Strengthening the technical capacities of Serbian law enforcement and judiciary institutions is the aim of a training course that starts in Belgrade today...

OSCE holds regional workshop on combating illicit drugs trafficking in Central Asia

Publishing date: 20 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
TASHKENT, 20 November 2008- Improving co-operation among the national stakeholders in Central Asia to prevent and investigate drug trafficking, and exchanging intelligence information is the purpose of a regional workshop that opened in Tashkent today...

OSCE Special Envoy briefs participating States on Geneva talks

Publishing date: 20 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
VIENNA, 20 November 2008- Heikki Talvitie, the Special Envoy of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, said today that the Geneva talks, co-chaired by the OSCE, UN and EU, had been constructive and that the next round of talks would discuss concrete proposals.

OSCE Project Co-ordinator supports improvement of administrative law curriculum in Ukraine

Publishing date: 20 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Rule of law
KAMYANETS-PODILSKY, Ukraine, 20 November 2008- Reform of Ukraine's administrative law and changes to the respective law course curriculum at universities is the focus of a two-day conference that opened in western Ukraine today...

Recent assaults on journalists in Armenia threaten free press, says OSCE representative

Publishing date: 19 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 19 November 2008- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, expressed his concern today over a violent attack this week against an independent journalist in Armenia...