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OSCE Mission criticizes media that published photos of nude 12-year-old girl
Publishing date: 19 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Human rights, Gender equality, Media freedom and development, Rule of law
BELGRADE, 19 May 2008- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Hans Ola Urstad, criticized today those Belgrade media which recently published and broadcast photos of a nude 12-year-old girl, and called for basic journalistic rules...
OSCE human rights body concerned about anti-Roma violence in Italy
Publishing date: 16 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
WARSAW, 16 May 2008- The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today expressed concern over the violent attacks on informal Roma settlements in Italy. The ODIHR called on the Italian authorities to ensure the protection...
OSCE Mission to Skopje trains police in interview skills
Publishing date: 16 May 2008
SKOPJE, 16 May 2008- Forty-two high ranking police officers from the Interior Ministry's Internal Affairs division and other departments completed today a training course in interview skills, organized by the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje....
OSCE Centre trains Kyrgyz police officers on human rights
Publishing date: 16 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Human rights, Policing
BISHKEK, 16 May 2008- More than 600 police officers and representatives of civil society from the Issyk-Kul and Naryn provinces of Kyrgyzstan will complete tomorrow an OSCE-organized training course on human rights...
OSCE Centre, Tajik Presidential administration chair discussion on labour migration
Publishing date: 16 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Economic activities, Human rights
DUSHANBE, 16 May 2008- Issues of labour migration and ways to improve the situation of labour migrants abroad were the focus of a Social Partnership Club roundtable discussion today, hosted by the OSCE Centre and the Public Council of Tajikistan...
Human trafficking, migrant smuggling in Central Asia threaten security and human rights, says OSCE official
Publishing date: 15 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Policing
TASHKENT, 15 May 2008- The need to distinguish between trafficking in human beings and human smuggling, and to tackle the crimes from both a security and human rights perspective, were emphasized at an OSCE workshop that concluded in Tashkent today...
OSCE encourages the Azerbaijani government to facilitate the registration of the Election Monitoring Centre
Publishing date: 15 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Democratization
BAKU, 15 May 2008- The OSCE Office in Baku issued a statement today to express regret over the 14 May decision of Azerbaijan's Khatai District Court to cancel the registration of the Election Monitoring Centre, a local civil society organization...