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OSCE trains Turkmenistan police students on human rights protection in countering terrorism
Publishing date: 22 November 2010
Content type: Press release
What we do: Education, Countering terrorism, Policing
ASHGABAT, 22 November 2010-Protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms in countering terrorism is the focus of an OSCE-organized training course for police students in Turkmenistan that started in Ashgabat today...
OSCE Centre holds human rights law lectures at Turkmenistan Institute of International Relations
Publishing date: 4 November 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Human rights, Education
ASHGABAT, 4 November 2010- A series of lectures on international human rights law, organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat and attended by 35 students at the Foreign Ministry's Institute of International Relations, ends tomorrow...
OSCE Centre promotes access to education for blind children in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 9 September 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Human rights, Education
ASHGABAT, 9 September 2010- Turkmenistan's Society of the Blind and Deaf held a ceremony today to hand over to the School of Blind Children equipment for printing schoolbooks in the Braille system provided by the OSCE Centre in Asghabat...
OSCE Centre summer course discusses criminal justice in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 30 July 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Human rights, Education, Rule of law
ASHGABAT, 30 July 2010- Twenty-five law-enforcement officers from across Turkmenistan took part in an OSCE summer course on international human rights standards in the administration of criminal justice which concludes today in Ashgabat...
OSCE Centre organizes study visit to Lithuania for Turkmenistan law-enforcement officials
Publishing date: 2 July 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, OSCE Secretariat
ASHGABAT, 2 July 2010- Five representatives of Turkmenistan's Interior Ministry and Police Academy exchanged information and best practices in police education and curriculum development during a three-day study visit to Lithuania that concluded today...
Rights of female inmates in focus of OSCE Centre training course
Publishing date: 11 June 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Human rights, Education, Gender equality
ASHGABAT, 11 June 2010- Prison officials and Interior Ministry representatives took part in a three-day OSCE course on international legal standards for the treatment of prisoners, with a focus on the rights of female inmates, which concluded....
OSCE holds lecture series on human rights in criminal justice at Turkmenistan State University
Publishing date: 17 March 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Human rights, Education, Rule of law
ASHGABAT, 17 March 2010- Thirty-five students of the faculty of Law and International Relations at the Magtymguly Turkmen State University are learning about administration of criminal justice in a series of lectures which ends on Friday...