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Rights of female inmates in focus of OSCE Centre training course
Publishing date: 11 June 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Human rights, Education, Gender equality
ASHGABAT, 11 June 2010- Prison officials and Interior Ministry representatives took part in a three-day OSCE course on international legal standards for the treatment of prisoners, with a focus on the rights of female inmates, which concluded....
OSCE Chairperson regrets violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, calls for calm and stability
Publishing date: 11 June 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Policing, Rule of law
ASTANA, 11 June 2010- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Kazakhstan's Secretary of State and Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev, today expressed his deep regret at the violent clashes in Kyrgyzstan's southern city of Osh...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator trains Ukrainian local police on combating human trafficking
Publishing date: 11 June 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights, Policing, Rule of law
POLTAVA, Ukraine, 11 June 2010- The final in a series of eight training sessions for local police chief inspectors on combating human trafficking concluded in Poltava today...
OSCE Centre promotes civil society role in environmental decision-making in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 11 June 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Democratization, Environmental activities
ALMATY, 12 June 2010- Sixty representatives from non-governmental organizations in Kazakhstan are taking part in the annual meeting of the Ecological Forum of Non-governmental organizations of Kazakhstan (EcoForum), which started today in Almaty...
OSCE Centre supports efforts to include sustainable development in Kyrgyzstan's secondary school curriculum
Publishing date: 11 June 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Environmental activities, Education
BALYKCHY, Kyrgyzstan, 11 June 2010- The first of five regional seminars financed by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek to support the inclusion of environmental sustainability in Kyrgyzstan's secondary school curriculum started today in Balykchy...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine holds seminar for regional judiciary on handling administrative disputes
Publishing date: 10 June 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
ODESSA, Ukraine 10 June 2010- A seminar organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (OSCE PCU) on the judicial review of administrative disputes, judicial ethics and conduct started in Odessa today...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator hands over equipment to help Ukraine eliminate remnants of war
Publishing date: 10 June 2010
Content type: Press release
What we do: Arms control
KYIV, 10 June 2010- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine handed over explosive ordnance detection equipment to the country's Emergency Situations Minister in an official ceremony in Kyiv today...