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OSCE concludes project on torture prevention in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 15 December 2011
DUSHANBE, 15 December 2011- Preventing torture through education and systematic oversight was the focus of a roundtable meeting organized today by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...
OSCE Mission to Moldova supports discussion to improve election legislation in Gagauzia
Publishing date: 15 December 2011
The election legislation of Moldova’s autonomous territorial unit of Gagauzia was discussed at an OSCE-led roundtable meeting in Comrat on 13 December 2011. Representatives of the Gagauz authorities, the People’s Assembly, parties, civil society, media and the OSCE Mission discussed two sets of legislative proposals...
OSCE Presence in Albania enables Roma children to attend school
Publishing date: 15 December 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Education, National minority issues, Roma and Sinti, Youth
The OSCE Presence in Albania ensured that 160 Roma children in the town of Fushe-Kruja in central Albania are able to continue their education this school year, by covering the rent, as the school is in private premises, and donated 170 books and three computers...
OSCE media freedom representative calls for urgent measures to improve media freedom situation in Turkey
Publishing date: 15 December 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
ANKARA, 15 December 2011- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, discussed today with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu media freedom situation in the country, in particular imprisonment of journalists and Internet restrictions...
Head of OSCE Presence in Albania commends nomination for People’s Advocate
Publishing date: 15 December 2011
TIRANA, 15 December 2011- The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania Ambassador Eugen Wollfarth today welcomed nomination of a candidate for the position of the People’s Advocate (Ombudsman)...
OSCE mission in Croatia successfully fulfilled
Publishing date: 15 December 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office in Zagreb (closed)
VIENNA, 15 December 2011 – The 56 OSCE participating States welcomed today the success achieved by the OSCE Office in Zagreb in fulfilling its mandate as well as the progress made by the host country, and decided after 15 years of OSCE field presence in Croatia to close its Office in Zagreb by the end of this year...
OSCE Office in Baku trains detention facilities staff on rights of suspects and accused
Publishing date: 15 December 2011
From 12 to 13 December, the OSCE Office in Baku held a training course for police and penitentiary officers in the city of Ganja in western Azerbaijan on international standards related to the treatment of suspects and accused in custody...