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Intellectual property rights in the digital age- new approaches needed to guarantee freedom of expression, says OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 24 January 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 24 January 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today called for governments to reassess protection of intellectual property rights online, emphasizing the potential threat to individual freedoms posed by expanding legal rights and technological restrictions...
OSCE-supported study reveals need to expand vocational training opportunities for young offenders in Armenia
Publishing date: 24 January 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Education, Rule of law
YEREVAN, 24 January 2012 – The results of a study on access to education and vocational training for juveniles in custody were presented today in Yerevan...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports efforts to tackle child trafficking
Publishing date: 24 January 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
SKOPJE, 24 January 2012 – Strengthening regional co-operation and dialogue for an effective response to human and child trafficking is the aim of an OSCE-supported regional workshop that started in Skopje today...
OSCE holds a workshop for customs and licensing authorities with Mediterranean Partners on military and dual-use goods
Publishing date: 24 January 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation
What we do: Arms control, Border management
A regional workshop organized by the OSCE to help combat the trafficking of strategic dual-use commodities and conventional weapons, including small arms and light weapons, started in Valletta, Malta on 24 January 2012...
OSCE Secretary General visits OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, stresses importance of parliamentary engagement
Publishing date: 24 January 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier met the Secretary General of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Spencer Oliver, on 24 January 2012 in Copenhagen. The two discussed prospects for closer co-operation between the Assembly and the OSCE's executive structures, notably in enhancing the OSCE’s efforts to prevent and respond to emerging crisis situations...
OSCE Head of Mission welcomes the arrest of Radovan Stanković
Publishing date: 23 January 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
SARAJEVO, 23 January 2012 – The Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Fletcher M. Burton, welcomed today the arrest of Radovan Stanković, a convicted war criminal and fugitive at large...
OSCE Secretary General meets Israeli foreign minister in Vienna
Publishing date: 23 January 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
VIENNA, 23 January 2012- OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier met Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman in Vienna today to discuss Israel’s role as an OSCE Partner state, including concrete areas for co-operation...