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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)...

Experts, policymakers discuss strengthening Armenian judicial independence at OSCE-organized conference

Publishing date: 28 June 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Rule of law
YEREVAN, 28 June 2011 – Identifying ways to strengthen the independence of Armenia’s judiciary is the focus of a meeting organized today by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Office in Yerevan...

Judges from former Yugoslavia and ICTY share experiences on handling of war crimes cases under OSCE/ODIHR-led project

Publishing date: 27 June 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Rule of law
BEČIĆI, Montenegro, 27 June 2011- Judges from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and their peers from the region met in Bečići today to share experiences in adjudicating war crimes cases...

ODIHR issues legal opinion on Kazakhstan's law on status of judges

Publishing date: 22 June 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Rule of law
ODIHR issued a legal opinion on Kazakhstan's Constitutional Law on the Judicial System and Status of Judges to the Kazakh Supreme Court on 21 June 2011.

Further reforms needed in Armenian police detention centres, OSCE-supported report says

Publishing date: 20 June 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
YEREVAN, 20 June 2011 –– Efforts to bring Armenian police detention centres in line with national legislation and international human rights standards are progressing, but further improvement of national legislative framework and practice is needed, says an OSCE-supported report released today...