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OSCE Chairman-in-Office congratulates new UN Human Rights Commissioner

Publishing date: 25 February 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Human rights
NEW YORK, 25 February 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, today congratulated the Canadian Judge Louise Arbour on her appointment as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights...

OSCE Mission to train south-east European lawyers in Belgrade

Publishing date: 25 February 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
BELGRADE, 25 February 2004- Lawyers and other activists of non-governmental organizations from Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, as well as members of National Minority Councils of Serbia and Montenegro will attend a...

OSCE Parliamentarians honour media freedom watchdog CPJ

Publishing date: 19 February 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 19 February 2004- "By honouring the work of the Committee to Protect Journalists, one of the best-recognized media freedom watchdogs in the world, we are simultaneously drawing attention to the thousands of cases of media freedom abuses...

OSCE Chairman discusses regional issues, Chechnya with Russian Federation

Publishing date: 17 February 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
MOSCOW, 17 February 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, discussed the future of the OSCE and regional issues including Georgia and Moldova at a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov in Moscow on...

OSCE Centre to train Uzbek journalists on reporting on human trafficking

Publishing date: 17 February 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights, Media freedom and development
TASHKENT, 17 February 2004- Twenty journalists from different media outlets in Uzbekistan will undergo an OSCE training course on covering the problem of human trafficking. The intensive five-day course, which starts on Thursday is organized as...

Serb, Montenegrin police officers complete internal investigation course in the UK

Publishing date: 13 February 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Policing
BELGRADE, 13 February 2004- The first specialised training course on internal affairs investigation for members of both the Serbian and the Montenegrin interior ministries finished last week in the UK. Supported by the OSCE Mission, six officers...

OSCE seminar brings Tajik authorities and NGOs together for prison reform talks

Publishing date: 12 February 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
DUSHANBE, 12 February 2004- Representatives of more than 30 NGOs, international organizations and the Tajik Government discussed prison reform for this Central Asian state at a three-day seminar that ended today. Initiated by the Tajik...