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ODIHR provides recommendations on establishing a population register in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 23 July 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Democratization
An expert team from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented its assessment and recommendations on how to best establish a fully computerized population register in Kyrgyzstan at a launch event in Bishkek on 24 July 2012...
OSCE-sponsored summer school brings young people from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru closer together
Publishing date: 23 July 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
For ten days in July 2012, 80 young people from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru river took part in an OSCE-supported summer school at Saharna, a beach resort on the river...
OSCE Presence in Albania donates computers, trains staff of Justice Ministry's prison service
Publishing date: 20 July 2012
TIRANA, 20 July 2012 – The OSCE Presence in Albania donated today several computers to the Albanian Justice Ministry’s Internal Control Service of Prisons (ICSP) as part of an OSCE project which also includes assistance with amending internal regulations, training staff and implementing an electronic monitoring project...
Attack on editor in Bosnia and Herzegovina unacceptable, says OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 20 July 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 20 July 2012 – Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today strongly condemned the brutal beating of Štefica Galić, editor-in chief of the webportal tačno.net...
OSCE PA to Observe Belarus Parliamentary Elections
Publishing date: 20 July 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 20 July 2012 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly intends to send a full observation mission to the 23 September Belarus Parliamentary Elections...
OSCE trains customs and border officers in Turkmenistan on maritime border control procedures and security management
Publishing date: 20 July 2012
TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan, 20 July 2012 – An OSCE-supported training course on innovative land and maritime border control procedures and security management mechanisms concluded in Turkmenbashi, a city on Turkmenistan’s Caspian coast, today...
OSCE trains police in targeting illicit proceeds of human trafficking
Publishing date: 20 July 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Policing
PRAGUE, 20 July 2012 – A three-day OSCE training seminar for police and financial investigators in how to identify, seize and confiscate criminal assets arising from human trafficking concluded today in Prague...