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OSCE Office in Tajikistan hosts first open plenary session of government interagency committee to combat trafficking
Publishing date: 31 March 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
DUSHANBE, 31 March 2011 – Tajikistan's Interagency Commission on Combating Human Trafficking discussed how the government, international organizations and civil society can work together to implement the newly-adopted National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking during its first-ever official open plenary session, held today at the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...
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...
OSCE presents third study on migration data in Bishkek, discusses steps to harmonize regional data collection
Publishing date: 31 March 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities
BISHKEK, 31 March 2011 – The preliminary findings and recommendations from an assessment of Kyrgyzstan’s collection of migration data by the OSCE and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) were presented to government officials and policymakers dealing with migration data at a meeting in Bishkek today...
Tajikistan’s Foreign Minister addresses OSCE, reconfirms commitments, calls for political dialogue to solve economic and environmental problems
Publishing date: 31 March 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council
VIENNA, 31 March 2011 – Tajikistan’s Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi in his address to the OSCE Permanent Council today reconfirmed the country’s commitments to its OSCE obligations in all dimensions of security, stressed the need for active international involvement in economic rehabilitation of Afghanistan, and the importance of promoting political dialogue in Central Asia to overcome differences on water and energy...
Workshop on gender equality and women's rights held in Prague
Publishing date: 31 March 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Gender equality
ODIHR organized a workshop for national human rights institutions from 17 OSCE participating States in Prague on 29 March...
OSCE Office in Minsk – making a difference for eight years
Publishing date: 31 March 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
The OSCE Office in Minsk began its work to support the society and government of Belarus in 2003. At the end of 2010, the Belarusian authorities chose not to join consensus on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Office in Minsk. The Office closed on 31 March 2011, following a three-month closure process...
As OSCE Office in Minsk closes, OSCE Chairperson expresses regrets, says efforts to enable OSCE work in Belarus continue
Publishing date: 31 March 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
VILNIUS, 31 March 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, today said that he deeply regretted that despite numerous efforts by the Chairmanship, Belarus' authorities had not reconsidered their decision not to join consensus on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Office in Minsk...