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OSCE supports public monitoring of pre-trial detention centres in Armenia
Publishing date: 7 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Rule of law
YEREVAN, 7 August 2006- Human rights NGOs today began monitoring the conditions in pre-trial detention centres as part of a project supported by the OSCE Office in Yerevan and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights...
OSCE Yerevan Office presents its views on human rights to secondary school teachers
Publishing date: 30 June 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Education
YEREVAN, 30 June 2006- An OSCE human rights expert shared her knowledge today with 55 secondary school teachers who are taking a year-long class on human rights...
OSCE Office begins training course to monitor places of detention in Armenia
Publishing date: 26 April 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Policing
YEREVAN, 26 April 2006- A four-day training course to increase the professional capacity of public monitoring groups to monitor places of detention started today in Tsakhkadzor in Armenia. The course, organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan together...
OSCE and Armenian Ombudsperson enhance co-operation
Publishing date: 18 March 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Human rights
YEREVAN, 18 March 2005- The OSCE today signed two Memoranda of Understanding with the first Armenian Ombudsperson Larisa Alaverdyan, under which her staff will receive training through exchange visits with the Polish and Lithuanian Ombudsman offices...
OSCE Office presents report on alternative sentencing in Armenia
Publishing date: 16 March 2005
YEREVAN, 16 March 2005- A research, study exploring prospects for non-custodial measures of punishment in Armenia, was presented today to the public. The main outcome of the research is that key actors involved in the criminal justice reform process...
OSCE holds experts meeting in Armenia to discuss victim and witness protection
Publishing date: 15 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
YEREVAN, 15 September 2004- The OSCE Office in Yerevan organized a two-day expert meeting in Tsakhkadzor that aimed at contributing to the criminalization of human trafficking and the protection of victims' human rights in Armenia...
Head of OSCE Office welcomes release of some Armenian opposition members
Publishing date: 4 June 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
YEREVAN, 4 June 2004- The Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, Vladimir Pryakhin, today welcomed the release from custody of two members of the opposition Republic party, Aramazd Zakaryan and Jora Sapeyan, and the withdrawal of charges against them. He...