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OSCE Centre in Dushanbe opens information point for youth in Garm
Publishing date: 6 February 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
GARM, 6 February 2004- The OSCE Centre in Dushanbe's Garm Field Office opened an Information Centre for the youth of the Rasht Valley on Thursday, a first of its kind in this remote and mountainous region of Tajikistan. It is equipped with...
OSCE urged to support further European integration efforts of former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Publishing date: 5 February 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Mission to Skopje
VIENNA, 5 February 2004- In her speech to the OSCE's Permanent Council, the Foreign Affairs Minister of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Ilinka Mitreva, praised the work of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission in helping to transform...
OSCE to hold workshop for women entrepreneurs in rural Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 28 January 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
BISHKEK, 28 January 2004- A workshop to encourage women to start small businesses in rural areas will open tomorrow in Kyrgyzstan. The two-day event, organised by the OSCE...
Criminal justice reform moves up the political agenda in Kyrgyzstan with OSCE conference
Publishing date: 25 January 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
BISHKEK, 25 January 2004- The reform of Kyrgyzstan's criminal justice system topped the agenda of an international conference, organized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and the OSCE Centre in Bishkek...
OSCE Office hosts conference on bill to reform Azerbaijani legal profession
Publishing date: 23 January 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Human rights
BAKU, 23 January 2004- Participants at an OSCE Conference on the Reforms in Azerbaijani Bar System agreed on the necessity of changes in the draft Law on Advocates in order to make planned reforms more effective and efficient and to bring more...
OSCE missions reconfirm support for combating trafficking in south-eastern Europe
Publishing date: 22 January 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
TIRANA, 22 January 2004- OSCE missions in south-eastern Europe reconfirmed their support to the governments of the region in combating trafficking in human beings, at a meeting...
OSCE Mission sends 32 community policing officers to gain hands-on experience in Holland
Publishing date: 19 January 2004
SKOPJE, 19 January 2004- Thirty-two police officers have been awarded diplomas for completing an OSCE training course on community policing and will now be sent to the Netherlands to experience how community policing is done in that country...