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OSCE Office supports Tajikistan's efforts to improve Gender Equality Law

Publishing date: 29 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Gender equality
DUSHANBE, 29 July 2008- How to integrate a gender perspective in Tajikistan's national policies as well improve Tajikistan's Gender Equality Law and ensure that it is implemented correctly was the focus of the roundtable discussion held in Dushanbe...

OSCE Centre trains Kyrgyz prosecutors on children's and women's rights

Publishing date: 9 June 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Gender equality, Rule of law
BISHKEK, 9 June 2008- Protecting the rights of juvenile and women prisoners, and legislation in the field is the focus of a training course for prosecutors and their assistants, organized by the OSCE Centre, that began in Bishkek today...

OSCE forum in Kyiv to discuss strategies for increasing women's participation in political life

Publishing date: 5 June 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Gender equality
KYIV, 5 June 2008- A two-day OSCE forum for elected women councillors from local councils of Ukraine will open in Kyiv tomorrow...

OSCE launches reports to promote better protection of trafficking victims

Publishing date: 26 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Economic activities, Human rights, Gender equality
VIENNA, 26 May 2008- The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today launched a report promoting the payment of compensation to victims of human trafficking...

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 Centre sponsors music contest to promote gender equality and security in Tajikistan

Publishing date: 30 April 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Gender equality
DUSHANBE, 30 April 2008- The annual "Surudi Sol" (song of the year) concert, in part sponsored by OSCE Centre in Dushanbe, will be held today in the Tajik capital...

OSCE Field Office supports gender analysis training for Osh City Council deputies

Publishing date: 10 April 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Gender equality
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 10 April 2008- Introducing the deputies of the City Council of Osh to gender analyses methods was the aim of a training workshop organized by the Field Office in Osh of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek today...