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OSCE Office helps Belarusian police officers learn about modern police education
Publishing date: 11 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Policing
MINSK, 11 October, 2010- Twenty-five Belarusian police officers will learn about modern police education methods during an OSCE-supported training course that started today in Minsk...
OSCE-supported study tour to Finland for Belarusian officials to focus on use of two official languages
Publishing date: 21 September 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
HELSINKI, 21 September 2010- Officials and researchers from Belarus are on an OSCE-supported two-day study tour to Finland which started today to learn more about the practice of the implementation of two official languages in the country...
Belarusian police experts on community policing study tour to Hungary
Publishing date: 13 September 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Policing, Rule of law
MINSK, 13 September 2010- A group of representatives from the Belarusian Interior Ministry started a study tour in Hungary today as part of an OSCE project on enhancing interaction between the police and local communities...
OSCE human rights office to work with Belarusian authorities on improving election framework
Publishing date: 23 January 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Elections
MINSK, 23 January 2009- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights will work with the authorities of Belarus on the reform of the country's electoral framework. This was agreed...
OSCE Minsk Office organizes film programme to mark Human Rights Day
Publishing date: 10 December 2008
MINSK, 10 December 2008- A week-long film programme "Dignity, Equality, Justness", organized by the OSCE Office, ended in Minsk today...
OSCE Office launches film festival to commemorate International Human Rights Day
Publishing date: 3 December 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
MINSK, 3 December 2007- The OSCE Office in Minsk launched today an eight-day film festival under the theme "Dignity, Equality, Justness" that will close on 10 December, International Human Rights Day...
OSCE Chairman seriously regrets sentence against Belarus opposition leader Kozulin upheld during appeal
Publishing date: 21 September 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Human rights
NEW YORK, 21 September 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office expressed regret today that the Belarus authorities had dismissed an appeal from A. Kozulin, an opposition candidate in last March's presidential election, and left the severe sentence in force...