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OSCE Belgrade mission hosts regional roundtable on conducting local war crimes trials

Publishing date: 29 November 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
PALIC, 29 November 2004- Judicial officials from Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina are focusing on regional co-operation in the building of local capacities to conduct war crimes trials at a two-day meeting that started today...

Uzbek law lecturers complete OSCE-sponsored study visit to Britain

Publishing date: 22 November 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Human rights
TASHKENT, 22 November 2004- As part of its efforts to support legal education in Uzbekistan, the OSCE Centre in Tashkent organized a study trip for 12 academics from law faculties and institutes to Britain's Essex University. Deans of faculties and...

OSCE Croatia mission calls for more profound debate on measures to prevent hate speech and assess past ideologies

Publishing date: 21 November 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Human rights
ZAGREB, 22 November 2004- Important steps made toward the reconciliation and normalisation of relations within south-east Europe, such as the Croatian Prime Minister's recent visit to Belgrade, should not be set back by isolated incidents, said OSCE's...

OSCE Mission and UNICEF issue statement on Serbian media coverage of child abuse

Publishing date: 16 November 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Human rights
BELGRADE, 16 November 2004- The OSCE Mission and UNICEF Office to Serbia and Montenegro issued the following statement on Tuesday: "The respect of human dignity, especially that of children, in print and electronic media is among the most important...

OSCE Office in Baku voices concern over establishment of the Bar Association

Publishing date: 11 November 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
BAKU, 11 November 2004- The OSCE Office in Baku is concerned about recent developments in the course of legal reforms in Azerbaijan. Attending the inaugural meeting of the Azerbaijan Bar Association last week, the OSCE Office in Baku observed that...

OSCE Centre, U.S. Embassy in Tashkent hold workshop on government-civil society co-operation in preventing human trafficking

Publishing date: 9 November 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
TASHKENT, 8 November 2004- Learning from international and local best practices of government-civil society co-operation in preventing human trafficking was the focus of a work-shop, organized by the OSCE Centre in Tashkent and the U.S. Embassy in...

OSCE conference calls for greater co-operation to help IDPs

Publishing date: 5 November 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
VIENNA, 5 November 2004- An OSCE conference on internally displaced persons (IDPs), held in Vienna on 4 and 5 November, called for pre-emptive action to avoid displacement and for better co-operation between...