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OSCE Office supports human rights education for university students in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 24 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Human rights
DUSHANBE, 24 July 2008- Twenty-two economics students from Tajikistan's major universities arrived in Varzob today to participate in a week-long training course on human rights and international public law, supported by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...
OSCE Mission completes first phase of 'Signs of Hope' photo and documentary initiative in zone of Georgian-Ossetian conflict
Publishing date: 23 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
TBILISI, 23 July 2008.- The first phase of a media-development project by the OSCE Mission to Georgia ended today with the completion of a six-day documentary training course for 12 Ossetian journalists in Tskhinvali...
Political impetus needed to achieve progress on confidence-building between Chisinau and Tiraspol, says OSCE Special Envoy
Publishing date: 23 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova
CHISINAU, 23 July 2008- The OSCE Special Envoy of the Finnish Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Heikki Talvitie, called on authorities in the Republic of Moldova and Transdniestria today to create and demonstrate political will to resolve the conflict...
OSCE Mission and UN System support Skopje showing of exhibit on culture of peace
Publishing date: 23 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
SKOPJE, 23 July 2008- Transforming a culture of violence into a culture of peace is the focus of a traveling photo exhibit now showing in Skopje thanks to joint support by the OSCE Mission to Skopje and the Office of the United Nations...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator trains Ukrainian regional authorities to address trafficking in human beings
Publishing date: 22 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
LUHANSK, Ukraine, 22 July 2008- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator launched today a series of ten regional training sessions, to take place across Ukraine, on how to address the problem of trafficking in human beings...
OSCE Office supports summer school to teach Central Asian youth about dangers of human trafficking
Publishing date: 22 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
DUSHANBE, 22 July 2008- A summer school to teach young people from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan about the dangers of human trafficking started today in Kairakum, northern Tajikistan...
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs issue statement on Nagorno-Karabakh
Publishing date: 22 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Minsk Group
What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 22 July 2008- The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs issued the following statement today:...