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OSCE Office helps train Azerbaijani judges and prosecutors to fight human trafficking

Publishing date: 12 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
BAKU, 12 May 2008- A training course for judges and public prosecutors on combating human trafficking, organized by the OSCE Office, began in Baku today...

Serbia's hard-fought and generally well-organized parliamentary elections gave voters a free choice

Publishing date: 12 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
BELGRADE, 12 May 2008- The vigorously contested early parliamentary elections in Serbia were conducted in an overall professional manner, allowing the country's voters to choose freely among a wide range of...

Public broadcasting in Bosnia and Herzegovina faces multiple threats, warns OSCE media freedom representative

Publishing date: 9 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media self-regulation, Safety of journalists
SARAJEVO, 9 May 2008- The future of public broadcasting in Bosnia and Herzegovina is under threat and urgent action is needed, said Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, at a conference in Sarajevo which ended yesterday.

OSCE Mission encourages students in Struga to strengthen ethnic dialogue

Publishing date: 9 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: National minority issues
SKOPJE, 9 May 2008- Ethnic Macedonian and Albanian high school students are discussing ways young people can contribute to the social development of the country and its integration into the EU at a public debate in Struga today...

OSCE Mission to Skopje supports police training on Roma history and culture

Publishing date: 9 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Policing, Roma and Sinti
SKOPJE, 9 May 2008- Teaching non-ethnic Roma police officers about Roma history and culture to help them overcome prejudices and stereotypes, with the aim of raising the quality of the police service in ethnic Roma areas, is the focus of a workshop...

OSCE media freedom representative asks new Russian President to address media freedom challenges

Publishing date: 7 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media pluralism, Media self-regulation, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 7 May 2008- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, congratulated Dmitry Medvedev on assuming the Russian Presidency today, and asked him to undertake measures to improve the media freedom situation in his country...

OSCE Centre supports parliamentary development in Kazakhstan

Publishing date: 6 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Democratization
ASTANA, 6 May 2008- Parliamentary development in Kazakhstan was the topic of a roundtable meeting organized today by the OSCE Centre in Astana jointly with the Public Foundation for Parliamentary Development in Kazakhstan...