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OSCE Office in Baku co-hosts course on fundamental rights and freedoms for judges and lawyers

Publishing date: 25 July 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
BAKU, 25 July 2011 – The OSCE Office in Baku and the German Justice Ministry's International Legal Co-operation Foundation today launched a week-long course on fundamental rights and freedoms for 30 judges and lawyers...

OSCE Centre supports training seminar for law enforcement staff in Kazakhstan on combating terrorism

Publishing date: 21 July 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Rule of law
ASTANA, 21 July 2011 – An OSCE-supported two-day distance learning seminar on countering terrorism and extremism for Kazakhstani prosecutors and other law enforcement staff began today...

OSCE Chairperson welcomes arrest of Goran Hadžić

Publishing date: 20 July 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Rule of law
VILNIUS, 20 July 2011- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, today welcomed the arrest by Serbian authorities of Goran Hadžić, the last remaining fugitive wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague...

OSCE Centre supports free legal consultation for residents in border areas in southern Kyrgyzstan

Publishing date: 14 July 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Border management, Rule of law
A series of legal consultations were held between 6 and 14 July 2011 in the border districts of the Osh and Jalal-Abad Provinces with support of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek...

OSCE Project Co-ordinator conducts seminars on international human rights law in Ukraine

Publishing date: 8 July 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
A series of seminars for judges and lawyers on international human rights law in several regions of Ukraine, supported by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU), started on 7 July 2011 in Lutsk...

OSCE Mission to Skopje holds conference on free legal aid to promote access to justice in South-Eastern Europe

Publishing date: 7 July 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Rule of law
SKOPJE, 7 July 2011 – Government representatives and practitioners involved in introducing free legal aid in the country as well as in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia shared their experiences and lessons learned at an OSCE-supported regional conference that started in Skopje today...

Serbian court and prosecution staff receives humanitarian law training under ODHIR-led War Crimes Justice Project

Publishing date: 6 July 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Rule of law
BELGRADE, 6 July 2011- Staff from the Serbian High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor completed today a three-day training course on international humanitarian law. The training was held as part of the War Crimes Justice Project which is led by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)...