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OSCE Centre organizes workshop on anti-corruption instruments and practices in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 9 November 2010
ASHGABAT, 9 November 2010- An OSCE-supported national workshop that aims to raise awareness about international instruments and best practices in combating corruption opened today in Ashgabat...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek trains border officials on travel document security
Publishing date: 8 November 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism, Policing, Rule of law
NOVOPOKROVKA, Kyrgyzstan, 8 November 2010- A training course that aims to strengthen travel document security in Kyrgyzstan, organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, started today in the Novopokrovka Border Troops Training Centre near Bishkek...
OSCE media freedom representative condemns brutal attack on Russian journalist
Publishing date: 8 November 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 8 November 2010- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, condemned today a recent brutal attack on Russian journalist Oleg Kashin and called on Russian authorities to swiftly act and bring its perpetrators...
ICTY delivers transcripts in local languages to Serbia under OSCE/ODIHR-led War Crimes Justice Project
Publishing date: 4 November 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Rule of law
THE HAGUE, 4 November 2010- The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) will deliver a first set of trial transcripts produced in local languages to the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor tomorrow as part of a project...
OSCE event participants say Paris Charter for New Europe relevant after 20 years, important for security community creation
Publishing date: 28 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretary General
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Economic activities, Border management, Environmental activities, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Education, Elections, Countering terrorism, Gender equality, Media freedom and development, National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector, Roma and Sinti, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
PARIS, 28 October 2010- Participants in a high-level event marking the 20th anniversary of the Charter of Paris for a New Europe today stressed the importance of the document for the future of Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian security.
Organization of American States Secretary General stresses need for strengthened regional co-operation in address to OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 27 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Partnerships, Permanent Council
VIENNA, 28 October 2010- Jose Miguel Insulza, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), in his address to the OSCE Permanent Council today stressed the importance of strengthened co-operation in addressing security challenges...
Experts discuss ways to strengthen independence of Moldova's judiciary at meeting organized by OSCE
Publishing date: 27 October 2010
Content type: Press release
What we do: Rule of law
CHISINAU, 27 October 2010- Identifying ways to strengthen the independence of Moldova's judiciary is the focus of a meeting organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the OSCE Mission to Moldova...