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OSCE Chairman repeats calls for an investigation into Andijan events following OSCE/ODIHR report

Publishing date: 20 June 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Human rights
LJUBLJANA, 20 June 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office has reiterated his call for a credible, independent and international investigation into the events in Andijan following a report from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights...

OSCE Chairman-in-Office concerned about four deported Uzbek asylum-seekers

Publishing date: 14 June 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Democratization, Border management, Human rights, National minority issues, Rule of law
LONDON, 14 June 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, said today he was deeply concerned about the fate of four asylum seekers, who were returned to Uzbekistan Friday by authorities in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan...

International commitments promoting tolerance must be implemented say four international institutions

Publishing date: 9 June 2005
Content type: Press statement
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Tolerance and non-discrimination
CORDOBA, 9 June 2005- Four international institutions promoting tolerance and non-discrimination today said that implementation of commitments in the fight against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and intolerance...

OSCE Chairman, Spanish Foreign Minister say States need to act on commitments to fight intolerance and discrimination

Publishing date: 8 June 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Human rights, Tolerance and non-discrimination
CORDOBA, 8 June 2005- A two-day OSCE conference on combating anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance opened on Wednesday with appeals by Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos and OSCE Chairman Dimitrij Rupel for concrete action to...

OSCE Mission provides bar exam training for lawyers in Sandzak

Publishing date: 4 June 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues
NOVI PAZAR, 4 June 2004- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, in co-operation with the Belgrade NGO Projuris Organization for Legal Education, concluded a bar exam training programme for 60 lawyers from throughout the Serbian region of Sandzak...

OSCE Centre raises awareness on fair trials in Tajikistan

Publishing date: 31 May 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
DUSHANBE, 31 May 2005- The OSCE Centre in Dushanbe today launched a project aimed at training professionals on trial monitoring techniques to improve the transparency and fairness of trials in Tajikistan. "This programme has the potential to become...

OSCE Tashkent centre co-organizes conference on international best practices in criminal procedure

Publishing date: 26 May 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Human rights
TASHKENT, 26 May 2005- International best practices in arrest and pre-trial detention were the focus of a conference that ended today in the Uzbek capital. Practical implications of transferring authority for arrest and pre-trial detention to courts...