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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Office presents books on purchase law and property rights
Publishing date: 20 June 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
BAKU, 20 June 2007- The OSCE Office in Baku launched two books targeting Azerbaijani legal practitioners and students today...
OSCE supports further reform of criminal legislation in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 15 June 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Rule of law
SHUCHINSK, Kazakhstan, 15 June 2007- The state of the Kazakh criminal legislation and ways to improve it was the focus of a conference that ends here today...
Kosovo needs functioning legal aid system, says OSCE Mission report
Publishing date: 8 June 2007
PRISTINA, 8 June 2007- Kosovo does not have a functioning legal aid system for civil cases, posing challenges to free and effective legal representation, concludes a new report from the OSCE Mission in Kosovo.
OSCE Chairman welcomes arrest of war crimes indictee Zdravko Tolimir
Publishing date: 2 June 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Rule of law
MADRID, 2 June 2007- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, said today he welcomed the arrest of war crimes indictee Zdravko Tolimir yesterday on the Bosnian-Serbian border.
OSCE Mission, Serbian Interior Ministry to host regional conference on combating organized crime
Publishing date: 23 May 2007
BELGRADE, 23 May 2007- Enhancing regional co-operation and developing concrete measures to fight trans-national organized crime in the Western Balkans is the aim of a regional conference that opens in Belgrade tomorrow.
ODIHR Director offers co-operation with Turkmenistan on elections, rule of law and human rights
Publishing date: 22 May 2007
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections, Rule of law
ASHGABAD, 22 May 2007- Amb. Christian Strohal, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, expressed hope today that Turkmenistan authorities would be ready to co-operate on election issues, rule of law and human rights...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan to hold training course on human rights and rule of law
Publishing date: 22 May 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
TASHKENT, 22 May 2007- United Nations and OSCE standards in the field of human rights and rule of law will be the focus of a training course organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan from 22 to 27 May in the Tashkent region...