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Diplomas awarded to 100 Serbian police officers after completing OSCE-supported training programme

Publishing date: 28 October 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Policing
SREMSKA KAMENICA, 28 October 2009- One hundred police officers received diplomas at a graduation ceremony at the Basic Police Training Centre in Sremska Kamenica today after completing an OSCE Mission-supported...

Roundtable held on OSCE/ODIHR reviews of draft laws on crime prevention and combating domestic violence in Kazakhstan

Publishing date: 27 October 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Human rights, Policing, Rule of law
ASTANA, 27 October 2009- An OSCE roundtable meeting to discuss draft laws on crime prevention and combating domestic violence, as well as legal opinions prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, started in Astana today...

OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine supports creation of mechanisms to prevent torture and ill-treatment in detention

Publishing date: 26 October 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Policing, Rule of law
LVIV, Ukraine, 26 October, 2009- An East European Conference that looks at challenges and practical aspects of implementing national mechanisms to prevent torture and ill-treatment in detention, co-hosted by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine...

OSCE Yerevan Office supports workshops to improve relations between police and journalists

Publishing date: 24 October 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Media freedom and development, Policing
VANADZOR, Armenia, 24 October 2009- An OSCE-supported workshop to promote co-operation between police and the media was held today in Armenia's northern Lori region...

OSCE Office supports workshop on cross-border co-operation for Afghan and Tajik senior border officers

Publishing date: 23 October 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Democratization, Border management, Countering terrorism, Policing, Tolerance and non-discrimination
DUSHANBE, 23 October 2009- A five-day OSCE workshop that fostered cross-border co-operation between Tajikistan's Border Troops and its neighbouring countries' Border Agencies concluded in Dushanbe today...

Head of OSCE human rights office dismayed about appeals hearing of Kazakh human rights defender

Publishing date: 21 October 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Policing, Rule of law
WARSAW, 21 October 2009- The director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Ambassador Janez Lenarcic, today expressed dismay about the conduct of the appeals hearing for Kazakh human rights defender Yevgeny Zhovtis...

OSCE Centre organizes bomb disposal training course for Interior Ministry troops

Publishing date: 12 October 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Democratization, Education, Policing
BISHKEK, 12 October, 2009- A two-week bomb disposal training course to strengthen Kyrgyz law enforcement officers' skills in handling explosive devices, organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, began today...