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OSCE organizes workshop on public-private partnerships to enhance tourism security
Publishing date: 8 September 2011
VIENNA, 8 September 2011 – Participants of a two-day workshop organized by the OSCE that started in Vienna today will discuss tourism security within the framework of public-private partnerships...
Statement of the UN, OSCE and EU Special Envoys on the situation in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 7 September 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BISHKEK, 7 September 2011- The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Central Asia Miroslav Jenča, the OSCE Chairperson’s Special Envoy for Kyrgyzstan Adam Kobieracki and EU Special Representative for Central Asia Pierre Morel visited Kyrgyzstan today...
OSCE holds Kyiv seminar on seizing and recovering illegal proceeds of drugs and crime
Publishing date: 6 September 2011
KYIV, 6 September 2011- The OSCE Strategic Police Matters Unit in co-operation with Ukraine’s State Financial Monitoring Service launched an anti-crime profits-recovery seminar in Kyiv today...
OSCE Special Representative highlights role of international justice in combating trafficking
Publishing date: 30 August 2011
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, spoke at the European Forum Alpbach’s Political Symposium 2011 entitled Justice – Responsibility for the Future on 29 August...
Social inclusion of migrant workers critical to preventing human trafficking, says OSCE Special Representative on visit to Canada
Publishing date: 12 August 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
TORONTO, Canada, 12 August 2011 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, emphasized prevention as a strategic area of anti-trafficking action during a visit to Canada that concluded today...
OSCE Office helps to prevent domestic violence in Azerbaijan’s regions
Publishing date: 4 August 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Gender equality
MASALLY, Azerbaijan, 5 August 2011 – The OSCE Office in Baku, in co-operation with the State Committee on Family, Women and Children’s Affairs, organized a discussion today on the role of local communities in preventing domestic violence in Masally, in the southern district of Azerbaijan. Participants from surrounding districts also participated in the event...
OSCE supports women in conflict prevention and reconciliation efforts in southern Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 3 August 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Gender equality
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 3 August 2011 – A co-operation agreement between women community leaders, the community police, healthcare and education structures and the Mayor’s Office was signed today in Osh in the framework of an OSCE project on gender issues and conflict prevention in southern Kyrgyzstan...