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OSCE/ODIHR to assess elections in Germany and Portugal

Publishing date: 14 September 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WARSAW, 14 September 2009- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today opened election assessment missions for the parliamentary elections to be held in Germany and in Portugal on 27 September...

OSCE Centre holds Kyrgyz-language journalism training for young journalists in Naryn province

Publishing date: 14 September 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Media freedom and development
NARYN, Kyrgyzstan, 14 September 2009- A two-day OSCE Centre-supported training course to help journalists improve their coverage in the Kyrgyz language began today at the Naryn Media Resource Centre in south-eastern Kyrgyzstan...

OSCE holds meeting to discuss preventing abuse of non-profit organizations for terrorist financing

Publishing date: 11 September 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
VIENNA, 11 September 2009- The OSCE hosted a workshop in Vienna today on preventing the abuse of non-profit organizations to finance terrorism, bringing together more than 150 experts from governments, international organizations and civil society...

OSCE Centre supports training course for Kyrgyz police investigators

Publishing date: 11 September 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Policing
BALYKCHY, Kyrgyzstan, 11 September 2009- About 126 police investigators will enhance their knowledge of investigation, crime detection and forensics at a training course supported by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek that started today...

OSCE Centre in Bishkek presents children's book about police

Publishing date: 11 September 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Policing
BISHKEK, 11 September 2009- A storybook for children about a day in the life of a Kyrgyz police officer was presented by the OSCE Centre and the Interior Ministry's Juvenile Affairs Unit to staff and youngsters in kindergarten 173 in Bishkek today...

OSCE media freedom representative calls on Azerbaijan to improve media freedom, hopes detained bloggers may be released soon

Publishing date: 10 September 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media self-regulation, Safety of journalists
BAKU, 10 September 2009- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, today criticized the continued imprisonment of media workers in Azerbaijan and called for the repeal of recently imposed restrictive media regulations...

OSCE/ODIHR Director welcomes improved co-operation with Russian authorities

Publishing date: 10 September 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Elections
MOSCOW, 10 September 2009- Wrapping up a visit to Moscow, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Ambassador Janez Lenarcic, said today co-operation with the Russian authorities has improved...