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OSCE Project Co-ordinator holds seminar for judiciary on handling administrative disputes
Publishing date: 7 September 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Rule of law
KYIV, 7 September 2009- A seminar organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) on the judicial review of administrative disputes started in Kyiv today...
OSCE Office organizes anti-corruption training for high school students in Armenia's Syunik region
Publishing date: 21 August 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Education, Rule of law
GORIS, Armenia, 22 August 2009- Some 280 students from 21 high schools in Armenia's Syunik region took part in anti-corruption courses during an OSCE-supported summer camp that concluded today in Goris...
OSCE Chairperson shocked by murders of NGO representatives in Chechnya
Publishing date: 13 August 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
ATHENS, 13 August 2009- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis, said today she was appalled by the killing of the leader of a Chechen aid group and her husband...
OSCE Centre organizes seminars on alternatives to pre-trial detention in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 3 August 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
ASHGABAT, 3 August 2009- The final in a series of five seminars on international human rights standards and best practices in the OSCE area related to alternatives to detention at the pre-trial stage of criminal proceedings started today in Ashgabat...
Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia expresses support for the work of new anti-corruption agency
Publishing date: 30 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Policing, Rule of law
BELGRADE, 30 July 2009- The Serbian Anti-Corruption Agency and the OSCE Mission to Serbia discussed ways to co-operate during a meeting yesterday between the Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Hans Ola Urstad...
OSCE rights office, Lithuanian education ministry launch anti-Semitism teaching tools for Lithuanian schools
Publishing date: 2 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
VILNIUS, 2 July 2009- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and Lithuania's Ministry of Education and Science today launched a Lithuanian-language version of teaching materials on combating anti-Semitism...
OSCE organizes meeting to promote Central Asian law enforcement co-operation in combating organized crime
Publishing date: 1 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing, Rule of law
ASTANA, 1 July 2009- An OSCE-supported meeting in Astana brought seven Deputy Interior Ministers and more than 50 high-level officials from the criminal justice sector together today...