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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission helps Georgian government improve border management
Publishing date: 7 August 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management
TBILISI, 7 August 2008- Strengthening border management was the focus of an OSCE-organized workshop for Georgian and Azerbaijani border management and security agencies that ended today in the Georgian district of Lagodekhi...
OSCE Office promotes leadership and critical thinking skills among young people in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 6 August 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
KAYRAKKUM, Tajikistan, 6 August 2008- The OSCE Office in Tajikistan is helping young people develop leadership and critical thinking skills at a Civic Education Summer Camp that started today in Kayrakkum...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office condemns Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone violence, reiterates invitation for dialogue
Publishing date: 2 August 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
HELSINKI, 2 August 2008- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, condemned today the latest escalation of violence, including overnight shooting, in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict....
OSCE Presence, USAID publish book to assist implementation of domestic violence law
Publishing date: 31 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Education, Gender equality, Policing, Rule of law
TIRANA, 31 July 2008- The OSCE Presence in Albania and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) published this week a judicial manual that will help courts to implement the country's law on domestic violence...
OSCE-supported regional police training centre opens in eastern Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 31 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Human rights, Education, Policing
BISHKEK, 31 July 2008- A regional Interior Ministry centre for training police officers in criminal investigation methods, supported by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, opened today in Balykchy, Issyk Kul...
OSCE Mission to Serbia supports Roma pre-school education
Publishing date: 31 July 2008
BELGRADE, 31 July 2008- Eighty-one Roma children from Belgrade's Gazela settlement graduated today from a four-month pre-school course supported by the OSCE Mission...
OSCE Centre supports Kyrgyz Financial Intelligence Unit to fight money laundering and financing of terrorism
Publishing date: 31 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Countering terrorism
BISHKEK, 31 July 2008- Building the capacity of Kyrgyzstan's Financial Intelligence Unit and enhancing international co-operation was the focus of an international conference that ended today in the Kyrgyz town of Cholpon-Ata...