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Promoting effective customs system in Armenia to be discussed at OSCE-supported event
Publishing date: 8 December 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Border management
YEREVAN, 9 December 2010- Ways to address challenges in customs systems will be the theme of a conference held by the Customs Brokers' Association with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan tomorrow...
Ahead of Human Rights Day, OSCE human rights chief, UN Special Rapporteur call for removing undue restrictions on religious freedom
Publishing date: 8 December 2010
Content type: Press release
What we do: Human rights
VIENNA, 9 December 2010- Janez Lenarcic, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and Heiner Bielefeldt, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, today called on states to remove undue restrictions on the fundamental freedom of religion or belief...
OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje community policing survey shows improvements
Publishing date: 8 December 2010
SKOPJE, 9 December 2010- A new survey on community policing, conducted by the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje, shows improvements and positive trends, the Head of the Mission, Ambassador Jose Luis Herrero, said today at a workshop on community policing...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek holds events to help Kyrgyzstan combat corruption
Publishing date: 8 December 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
BISHKEK, 9 December 2010- The OSCE Centre in Bishkek today launched an anti-corruption campaign that comprises a film, posters and information banners- and hot beverages- to encourage all stakeholders to do their part to fight corruption.BISHKEK, 9 December 2010- The OSCE Centre in Bishkek today launched an anti-corruption campaign that comprises a film, posters and information banners- and hot beverages- to encourage all stakeholders to do their part to fight corruption.
OSCE hosts national workshop in Yerevan on enhancing cyber-security
Publishing date: 8 December 2010
YEREVAN, 8 December 2010- A national expert workshop on combating terrorist use of the Internet and comprehensively enhancing cyber-security, organized by the OSCE Action against Terrorism Unit (ATU) in co-operation with the OSCE Office in Yerevan, started in Yerevan today...
ODIHR provides training on freedom of religion or belief
Publishing date: 8 December 2010
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
On 8 December, staff from ODIHR and members of ODIHR’s Advisory Council on Freedom of Religion or Belief provided a one-day training session in Vienna for 23 participants from non-governmental organizations and religious or belief communities from all parts of the OSCE region.
OSCE promotes public-private partnerships in South-Eastern Europe to counter terrorist financing and radicalization
Publishing date: 7 December 2010
SARAJEVO, 8 December 2010- Experts from governments and the private sector in South-Eastern Europe are discussing how to best combat terrorist financing and radicalization that lead to terrorism at an OSCE-organized workshop that began in Sarajevo today...