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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Serbia supports Interior Ministry’s efforts to assist crime victims
Publishing date: 26 March 2012
A four-day OSCE-supported workshop for officers from Serbia’s Interior Ministry and the Police Academy took place from 20 to 23 March 2012 in Belgrade...
OSCE Mission helps improve emergency management and disaster response in Serbia
Publishing date: 26 March 2012
A three-day simulation exercise on emergency management for representatives of municipal emergency headquarters from Nova Varos, Prijepolje and Priboj took place from 21 to 23 March 2012 in Zlatibor...
ODIHR trains NGOs in south Kyrgyzstan on trial monitoring
Publishing date: 24 March 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Rule of law
The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) shared its trial-monitoring methodology with representatives of non-governmental organizations from the south of Kyrgyzstan, in two days of training organized in co-operation with the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and held in Osh on 23 and 24 March 2012...
Joint statement by the Foreign Ministers of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries
Publishing date: 22 March 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Minsk Group
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON/ PARIS, 22 March 2012- The foreign minsters of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov, Secretary of State of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Foreign Minister of France Alain Juppé issued the following statement today...
OSCE/ODIHR opens mission to assess parliamentary elections in Armenia
Publishing date: 21 March 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
YEREVAN, 22 March 2012 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today opened an election observation mission for the parliamentary elections to be held in Armenia on 6 May...
ODIHR Director, OSCE Chairmanship representatives welcome French investigation of anti-Semitic and racial motives in Toulouse shootings
Publishing date: 20 March 2012
Content type: Press release
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
BISHKEK, 20 March 2012 – Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, the ODIHR Director, today condemned the attack that killed four people outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, France on Monday, and welcomed actions by the French authorities to investigate this and the shootings of French soldiers last week as anti-Semitic or racially motivated crimes...
OSCE Special Representative in Monaco welcomes continuation of child protection project in Moldova
Publishing date: 20 March 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
MONACO, 20 March 2012 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, in her meeting with Prince Albert II today praised the support by the Principality of Monaco in the field of child protection and welcomed the continuation of such a project in Moldova...