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OSCE Yerevan Office helps train journalists on covering judicial cases, procedures

Publishing date: 17 February 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Media freedom and development, Rule of law
The judicial system and procedures, issues related to judicial independence were the focus of a training seminar organized for media representatives from 15 to 16 February 2014 in Aghveran with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan...

OSCE, Japan government provide equipment for environmental monitoring around Issyk-Kul lake in Kyrgyzstan

Publishing date: 17 February 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Environmental activities
BALYKCHY, Kyrgyzstan, 17 February 2014 – New environmental monitoring equipment to enhance the protection of Kyrgyzstan’s largest lake was handed over to staff from the Issyk-Kul Biosphere Territory by the Embassy of Japan and the OSCE Centre in Bishkek today in the lakeside town of Balykchy...

Governments must step up fight against human trafficking, protect victims, prosecute criminals

Publishing date: 17 February 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
VIENNA, 17 February 2014 – Prominent European officials are calling on governments at an international anti-trafficking conference in Vienna today to intensify the fight against modern-day slavery by taking specific steps to protect victims and prosecute the criminals who commit this terrible crime...

OSCE Chair welcomes handover of Kyiv City State Administration Building as another positive step in defusing tensions

Publishing date: 16 February 2014
Collections: Swiss Chairmanship takes lead in OSCE Ukraine efforts
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
BERN, 16 February 2014- Didier Burkhalter, Swiss Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, today welcomed the move by opposition protesters to vacate the Kyiv City State Administration Building as another positive development towards de-escalating tensions in Ukraine...

OSCE media freedom representative concerned about obstruction of journalists’ work in Armenia

Publishing date: 14 February 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media self-regulation, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 14 February 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today expressed concern about police obstruction of journalists’ activities while covering a public demonstration in Yerevan on 12 February...

OSCE Parliamentary Assembly debates crisis in Ukraine; role of international community in promoting resolution among topics

Publishing date: 14 February 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
VIENNA, 14 February 2014 – Some 270 parliamentarians from more than 50 OSCE participating states have held a spirited debate on the current situation in Ukraine to close the 13th Winter Meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly...

OSCE Centre in Astana organizes study visit to Slovenia on National Preventive Mechanism against torture

Publishing date: 14 February 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Rule of law
The OSCE Centre in Astana co-organized a study visit of representatives from Kazakhstan to Ljubljana from 11 to 12 February 2014 to learn about the Slovenian experience in implementing the National Preventive Mechanism against torture and ill-treatment (NPM)...