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From Stockholm to Rio- stakeholders must come together to contribute to fight against trafficking of children, says OSCE special representative

Publishing date: 17 September 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
GENEVA, 17 September 2008- The OSCE Special Representative for combating human trafficking, Eva Biaudet, said today that international co-operation, partnership and self-monitoring mechanisms at a national level are crucial elements in...

Commitments apply equally to all states, OSCE rights chief tells US Helsinki Commission

Publishing date: 17 September 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
WASHINGTON, D.C., 17 September 2008- The OSCE's far-reaching human rights and democracy commitments apply equally to all participating States, and progress in meeting these standards must be measured with the same yardstick across the entire region...

OSCE meeting to discuss criminal justice reform in Central Asia

Publishing date: 17 September 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Rule of law
ASTANA, 17 September 2008- Some 50 high-level criminal justice professionals and experts from across Central Asia will discuss the reform of the criminal justice systems in the countries of the region at a meeting that opened in Zerenda today...

Improving access to information purpose of OSCE media seminar in Moldova

Publishing date: 16 September 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws
CHISINAU, 16 September 2008- Fostering effective interaction between public bodies and journalists to increase access to official information is the aim of a two-day OSCE training seminar that started in the Moldovan capital today...

OSCE and Yerevan State University open environmental rights centre

Publishing date: 16 September 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Environmental activities
YEREVAN, 16 September 2008- A Resource Centre on Environmental Rights opened at the Law Faculty of the Yerevan State University today with the support of the OSCE Office and as part of the ENVSEC Initiative...

OSCE Office launches web site for Mingechevir City Police

Publishing date: 15 September 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Education, Policing
BAKU, 15 September 2008- The OSCE Office in Baku and the Interior Ministry inaugurated a new web site for police in the city of Mingechevir today, making this city the first in the country to have such a police department site...

OSCE Mission to Skopje supports training course for new police inspectors

Publishing date: 15 September 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Education, Policing, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
SKOPJE, 15 September 2008-A three-week training course on community policing organized by the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje started today in the southern village of Krani...