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Gender budgeting targets all policy areas, says budget expert in OSCE discussion
Publishing date: 12 October 2012
On 12 October 2012, the OSCE Gender Section held a discussion in Vienna on gender responsive budgeting and its role in ensuring equality between women and men within the Organization and participating States...
OSCE discusses role of community policing in countering terrorism
Publishing date: 12 October 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
ASTANA, 12 October 2012 – An OSCE-supported seminar on countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism and the role community policing can play in this regard concluded today in Astana...
OSCE Special Representative, at Alliance conference in Vienna, says discrimination cause of trafficking
Publishing date: 11 October 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
VIENNA, 11 October 2012 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, at an OSCE-hosted conference, outlined today how discrimination serves as an underlying cause of human trafficking and called for new strategies to fight...
OSCE Secretary General, on Albania visit, addresses OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
Publishing date: 8 October 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier spoke at the opening session of the OSCE Parliamentary Fall Meeting, hosted by the Albanian Parliament, on 5 October 2012...
OSCE helps develop business skills of female entrepreneurs in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 28 September 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Gender equality
ISTANBUL, 28 September 2012 – An OSCE-supported training course for women entrepreneurs from Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Azerbaijan concluded in Istanbul today...
OSCE Special Representative urges Azerbaijan to enhance measures for addressing labour trafficking
Publishing date: 27 September 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, in a three-day trip to Baku from 24 to 26 September 2012 called on the government to increase efforts to combat trafficking for labour exploitation, particularly in cases involving labour migrants in construction and domestic work...
Gender-sensitive policing can help provide more security to all, say participants of OSCE discussion
Publishing date: 21 September 2012
The OSCE Gender Section held on 21 September 2012 in Vienna a discussion on gender-sensitive policing, its benefits and the challenges it faces, as well as the possibilities for gender mainstreaming within police forces in the OSCE region. The discussion was held on the margins of the OSCE’ Annual Police Expert Meeting which gathers police and security experts from the 56 OSCE participating States...