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OSCE and Council of Europe support development of mechanisms to prevent torture, ill-treatment in detention in Ukraine
Publishing date: 2 November 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Human rights
ODESSA, Ukraine, 2 November, 2010- The Third East European Conference on national mechanisms to prevent torture and ill-treatment in detention, co-hosted by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU), started in the southern Ukrainian city...
OSCE Mission to Serbia presents television documentary on activism
Publishing date: 2 November 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
BELGRADE, 2 November 2010- A television documentary that tells five stories of how groups of engaged people were able to change their communities for the better, produced with support from the OSCE Mission to Serbia, was presented today...
OSCE-supported regional training course on combating cybercrime starts in Serbia
Publishing date: 1 November 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Serbia
BELGRADE, 1 November 2010- Twenty police officers from South-Eastern Europe started an OSCE-supported course today in Belgrade to learn about methods to combat cybercrime. The three-week course...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan supports meeting to improve transport development
Publishing date: 1 November 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities, Good governance
TASHKENT, 1 November 2010- An OSCE-supported meeting that started today in Tashkent aims to improve the co-ordination of transport development across the Eurasian region...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes Turkish court decision to lift ban on YouTube, encourages further media reforms
Publishing date: 1 November 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 1 November 2010- Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today welcomed the lifting of a YouTube website ban in Turkey, calling it a positive and long-awaited decision by the Turkish judiciary system...
Central Asian Youth Network participants learn about OSCE during visit to Vienna
Publishing date: 29 October 2010
VIENNA, Austria, 29 October 2010- Seven Central Asian university students finished a three-day visit to Vienna today during which they learned about the OSCE and its work...
OSCE Centre enhances computer skills of Kyrgyzstan's Interior Ministry troops
Publishing date: 29 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Economic activities, Policing
BISHKEK, 1 November 2010- A two-week OSCE-supported training course for internal troops of Kyrgyzstan's Interior Ministry supported by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek on enhancing computer skills started today...