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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE-supported conference discusses Integrated Water Resources Management in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 8 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 11 October 2010- The promotion of the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Ili-Balkhash basin is the topic of the OSCE Centre's conference that started today in Almaty...
OSCE Mission voices support to Pride Week in Belgrade
Publishing date: 8 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
BELGRADE, 8 October 2010- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Ambassador Dimitrios Kypreos expressed today his support to the principles of observing fundamental rights and freedoms, underlying the Pride Week events in Belgrade...
Secure passports in focus at OSCE workshop in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 8 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Countering terrorism, Policing
TASHKENT, 8 October 2010- An OSCE-supported training course that studied what Uzbekistan needs to do to participate in an international technical platform designed to validate biometric data stored in electronic passports, concluded today in Tashkent...
Protecting the rights of every child is key to preventing trafficking, OSCE Special Representative says at Alliance meeting
Publishing date: 7 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
WARSAW, 7 October 2010- Child protection must be a priority for efforts to prevent child trafficking to be effective, the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, said today...
OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje supports the production of a feasibility study for the Ministry of Local Self-Government
Publishing date: 7 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Education
SKOPJE, 7 October 2010- The Head of OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje Ambassador Jose Luis Herrero and Minister of Local Self-government Musa Xhaferi signed today a memorandum of understanding as a support to the local self government reform...
Winners of OSCE contest for Armenian National Assembly staff selected
Publishing date: 7 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Education, Rule of law
YEREVAN, 7 October 2010- Winners of an OSCE-supported policy research contest for the Armenian National Assembly staff were announced in Yerevan today...
OSCE Centre promotes best practices in basic police training
Publishing date: 5 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
ASHGABAT, 5 October 2010- About twenty officials from the Interior Ministry and Police Academy of Turkmenistan discussed basic police training in a roundtable meeting which concluded in Ashgabat today...