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OSCE Chair to meet Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine

Publishing date: 11 April 2014
Collections: Swiss Chairmanship takes lead in OSCE Ukraine efforts
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BERN, 11 April 2014- Didier Burkhalter, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Swiss Foreign Minister, will travel to Ukraine and meet the Special Monitoring Mission on Monday, 14 April...

OSCE Centre promotes best practices in preventing human trafficking in Turkmenistan

Publishing date: 11 April 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
ASHGABAT, 11 April 2014 – Law-enforcement officials, judges and defense lawyers of Turkmenistan discussed best practices in preventing and combating trafficking in human beings at an OSCE-organized training course that ended in Ashgabat today...

OSCE trains border officials on protecting human rights in securing borders from terrorism

Publishing date: 11 April 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Countering terrorism
Senior border officials from ten OSCE participating States and two Partners for Co-operation completed today a one-week course in Dushanbe on the protection of human rights when countering terrorism at the borders. The training course, which brought together 22 participants, focused on the need to

Russian and Ukrainian Delegations to OSCE Parliamentary Assembly meet to discuss crisis

Publishing date: 11 April 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
VIENNA, 11 April 2014 – Members of the Russian and Ukrainian Delegations to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly met for talks today in Vienna on the invitation of OSCE PA President Ranko Krivokapic.

OSCE Centre supports workshop on green economy in Kazakhstan

Publishing date: 11 April 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
ASTANA, 11 April 2014 – Enhancing the national legislation for transition to a green economy in Kazakhstan is the main topic of an OSCE-supported workshop that started today...

OSCE organizes study visit of Kyrgyz officials to Latvia to learn about best practices in anti-corruption

Publishing date: 11 April 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Economic activities, Good governance
A four-day visit of eight Kyrgyz officials to Riga, Latvia, aimed at learning international best practices on combatting corruption, ended on 11 April 2014...

Co-ordinated efforts necessary to eradicate the practice of torture, say participants at OSCE meeting

Publishing date: 10 April 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
VIENNA, 10 April 2014 – Co-ordinated efforts among states, international organizations and civil society are necessary to end the practice of torture, participants said today at the opening of a two-day OSCE meeting in Vienna...