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OSCE media representative welcomes release of Azerbaijani social media activist

Publishing date: 27 December 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media freedom on the internet, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 27 December 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, welcomed today the pardoning of Facebook activist Jabbar Savalan in Azerbaijan...

OSCE strengthens professional capacities of Yerevan municipal staff

Publishing date: 27 December 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
YEREVAN, 27 December 2011 – Some 60 staff members of the Yerevan municipality and the city’s administrative districts received certificates today for completing a one-week intensive training course on planning and monitoring organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan...

OSCE Office in Baku trains judges and prosecutors to combat money laundering and terrorist financing

Publishing date: 27 December 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Economic activities, Countering terrorism
GANJA, Azerbaijan, 27 December 2011 – The OSCE Office in Baku launched a training session today in Ganja, the second largest city of Azerbaijan, on countering money laundering and financing of terrorism...

OSCE media representative expresses concern over plans to criminalize genocide denial in France

Publishing date: 22 December 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Media freedom and development, Media laws
VIENNA, 22 December 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed concern today over the approval by the lower chamber of France’s Parliament of a draft bill that aims at criminalizing public statements denying genocides...

Head of OSCE Presence in Albania welcomes election of People’s Advocate

Publishing date: 22 December 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Rule of law
TIRANA, 22 December 2011- The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Eugen Wollfarth, welcomed today the election of the new People’s Advocate (Ombudsman) by the Albanian parliament...

OSCE holds training course on legislative drafting in Turkmenistan

Publishing date: 22 December 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Rule of law
ASHGABAT, 23 December 2011 – Legal experts from the Justice Ministry, the Institute of State and Law and the National Institute of Democracy and Human Rights (NIDHR) under the President of Turkmenistan took part in an OSCE-supported seminar on legislative drafting which concluded in Ashgabat today...

OSCE participating States approve 2012 OSCE budget

Publishing date: 22 December 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
VIENNA, 22 December 2011 – The Lithuanian OSCE Chairmanship and the Irish Chairmanship of the Advisory Committee on Management and Finance welcomed today’s decision by all 56 OSCE participating States to approve the Unified Budget for 2012, amounting to 148,055,400 euros...