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OSCE Office in Yerevan supports educational and recreational activities for juveniles at Abovyan pre-trial detention centre
Publishing date: 22 December 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Education, Rule of law
ABOVYAN, Armenia 22 December 2009- The OSCE Office in Yerevan donated educational and recreational resources for the juvenile pre-trial detention centre in Abovyan today...
OSCE Centre facilitates discussion on simplification of pre-trial criminal procedures in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 22 December 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
ASTANA, 22 December 2009- A recently adopted law that aims to simplify preliminary criminal investigation procedures in Kazakhstan was in focus at an OSCE-supported roundtable discussion that was held in Astana today.
OSCE media freedom representative gravely concerned about continuing persecution of investigative journalists in Russia
Publishing date: 21 December 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 21 December 2009- Citing two specific criminal cases, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, called today for an end to the persecution of independent journalism in Russia in a letter to Russian Foreign Minister...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine helps introduce e-governance in the Dnipropetrovsk region
Publishing date: 21 December 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Economic activities
DNIPROPETROVSK, Ukraine, 21 December 2009- The results of a project to introduce e-governance for local government were presented by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk today...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine hosts roundtable discussion with consulate officials on preventing trafficking in human beings
Publishing date: 18 December 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
KYIV, 18 December 2009- A roundtable discussion supported by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine to promote co-operation between Ukrainian authorities and Kyiv-based embassies and consulates to prevent human trafficking was held in Kyiv today...
Press release issued by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
Publishing date: 18 December 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Elections
VIENNA, 18 December 2009- The following is a press release issued by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly today. The views expressed in this press release do not necessarily reflect those of the Chairmanship, nor of all OSCE participating States.
OSCE Mission to Skopje presents results of annual decentralization survey
Publishing date: 17 December 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
SKOPJE, 17 December 2009- The OSCE Mission to Skopje presented the results of its annual survey assessing the progress of decentralization in various areas in 2008 and 2009 at a conference in Skopje today...