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OSCE trains Tajik and Afghan border officers to detect and interdict illegal cross-border movements

Publishing date: 13 September 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management
Thirteen Tajik border troops and twelve Afghan border police officers serving on the Tajik-Afghan border, graduated on 13 September 2013 from a regular Patrolling and Leadership course conducted by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...

OSCE promotes best practices in maritime security in Turkmenistan

Publishing date: 13 September 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Border management
TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan, 13 September 2013 –An OSCE-supported training course on maritime border management concluded in the Caspian coast town of Turkmenbashi today...

New information law in Spain restricts public access to information, says OSCE media freedom representative

Publishing date: 13 September 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws
VIENNA, 13 September 2013 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović expressed disappointment that an information law that Spanish parliament passed yesterday will in fact restrict the public’s access to information...

OSCE media freedom representative welcomes court decision, calls for end to investigation against Swiss journalist

Publishing date: 12 September 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 12 September 2013 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović, has commended the decision of a Neuchâtel court that a police search carried out in the premises of journalist Ludovic Rocchi was ‘unjustified’ and therefore invalid in an ongoing investigation.

OSCE Centre supports conference on transport security and trade facilitation in Kazakhstan

Publishing date: 12 September 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Border management
ASTANA, 12 September 2013 – Some 250 prosecutors and law enforcement officers from Kazakhstan gathered at an international conference that started today in Astana, with the OSCE Centre support, to discuss how to enhance transport security, improve transit and accelerate the movement of goods, in particular within the Eurasian economic space...

OSCE media freedom representative concerned about reported police violence against journalists

Publishing date: 12 September 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 12 September 2013- Turkish authorities must ensure that police violence against journalists is no longer tolerated, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović said today...

OSCE Special Representative encourages Romania to continue its anti-trafficking efforts

Publishing date: 12 September 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
BUCHAREST, 12 September 2013- The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, at the close of her visit to Romania today, commended the government for giving priority to the fight against human trafficking...