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OSCE Mission to Serbia, U.S. Embassy support training course to strengthen prosecutors' skills in fighting financial crime
Publishing date: 31 March 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Economic activities, Rule of law
ZLATIBOR, 31 March 2011 – Some 30 prosecutors from Serbia's anti-corruption units today began discussing the use of forensic accounting in financial investigations at a training course organized jointly by the OSCE Mission to Serbia and the U.S. Department of Justice...
Prospects for probation in Kazakhstan’s criminal justice system discussed at OSCE-supported conference
Publishing date: 28 March 2011
ASTANA, 28 March 2011 – Parliamentarians, government officials, civil society representatives and academics discussed the necessary legal and institutional framework for a probation system in Kazakhstan at an OSCE Centre conference that began in Astana today...
Attempts to undermine the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Prosecutor's Office of BiH harm all people in BiH
Publishing date: 25 March 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Rule of law
SARAJEVO, 25 March 2011 – The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina has noted with increasing concern that the role and purpose of BiH’s state judicial institutions have been openly called into question in recent weeks...
OSCE Mission in Kosovo donates books to Prishtinë/Priština University law faculty
Publishing date: 23 March 2011
PRISHTINË/PRISTINA, 23 March 2011 – The OSCE Mission in Kosovo today donated 300 newly published volumes of the OSCE’s legal reports to the Law Faculty at Prishtinë/Priština University...
OSCE Centre holds discussion on criminal justice reform in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 18 March 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
ALMATY, 18 March 2011 – A roundtable discussion on ensuring human rights in criminal justice, supported by the OSCE Centre in Astana, began today in Almaty...
OSCE Media Representative condemns intimidation of journalists in Italy
Publishing date: 14 March 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 14 March 2011- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today condemned continued intimidation and threats against investigative journalists in Italy and urged the Italian authorities to take action and investigate all such cases...
OSCE human rights chief says progress on judicial reform key for Armenia’s democratic development
Publishing date: 10 March 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law