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OSCE Mission to Serbia Head calls for respect, civility in democratic debate
Publishing date: 15 March 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Media freedom and development
BELGRADE, 15 March 2013- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Peter Burkhard, today called for respect and civility in public dialogue after a debate organized with the assistance of the OSCE Mission was disrupted...
OSCE Special Representative stresses victims’ rights at Krakow conference on trafficking in human beings
Publishing date: 15 March 2013
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, said at a judicial training seminar in Krakow, Poland on 14 March 2013 that trafficked people’s legal rights must be upheld and given the same importance as punishing perpetrators in court...
OSCE Centre holds discussion on Kazakhstan’s new criminal procedure legislation
Publishing date: 15 March 2013
AK-BULAK, Kazakhstan, 15 March 2013 – A roundtable discussion supported by the OSCE Centre in Astana on the reform of the Criminal Procedure Code of Kazakhstan began today in Ak-Bulak near Almaty...
OSCE Secretary General meets Azerbaijani President, Foreign Minister in Baku
Publishing date: 15 March 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
BAKU, 15 March 2013 – OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier met Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov in Baku today...
OSCE supports discussion on establishing a torture prevention mechanism in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 14 March 2013
The OSCE Centre in Astana jointly with the Committee on Legislation and Judicial Reform of the Mazhilis (the lower Chamber of Parliament) and the Penal Reform International Office in Central Asia organized a roundtable discussion on 14 March 2013 on a draft law to establish a National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) against torture in Kazakhstan...
Security sector reform focus of OSCE-supported training in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 14 March 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SARAJEVO, 14 March 2013 – An introductory course on security sector reform, co-organized by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Armed Forces of BiH Joint Staff and the Centre for Security Studies ended in Sarajevo today...
Head of OSCE Mission to Moldova visits neighbouring towns on both banks
Publishing date: 14 March 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova