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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...

First OSCE meeting on legal reform held in Turkmenistan

Publishing date: 15 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization
ASHGABAD, 15 May 2008- The first in a series of OSCE workshops aimed at providing lawmakers in Turkmenistan with tools for an effective legal reform process ended today in Ashgabad...

OSCE Chairman welcomes appointment of new head of Organization's human rights body

Publishing date: 15 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Elections
HELSINKI, 15 May 2008- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, welcomed today the decision by the OSCE Ministerial Council to appoint Janez Lenarcic of Slovenia as the head of the Organization's human rights body...

OSCE Centre helps Kyrgyz police learn about democratic means to maintain public order

Publishing date: 15 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Human rights, Policing
BISHKEK, 15 May 2008- Helping police officers learn how they can maintain public order with democratic methods was the purpose of OSCE-organized courses offered to more than 250 police officers, the last of which concluded today...