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OSCE organizes training course for Azerbaijan's Ombudsman
Publishing date: 21 December 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Human rights
BAKU, 21 December 2007- Building the capacity of the office of the Ombudsman of the Azerbaijan Republic is the aim of a training course that began in Baku today...
OSCE meeting identifies need for border-crossing best practices for the CIS
Publishing date: 20 December 2007
KYIV, 20 December 2007- Problems related to cross-border transit of goods within the CIS region as well as between the CIS and the EU were the focus of an OSCE meeting which ended in Kyiv today...
OSCE media freedom watchdog welcomes acquittal of Hungarian journalist in secrecy case, urges legislative reforms
Publishing date: 19 December 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws, Safety of journalists
BUDAPEST, 19 December 2007- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, greeted today's acquittal of journalist Antonia Radi, and called on the Hungarian authorities to reform legislation on disclosing state secrets...
OSCE Centre presents research on profitability problems facing Tajikistan's newspapers
Publishing date: 19 December 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Economic activities, Education, Media freedom and development
DUSHANBE, 19 December 2007- Most newspapers in Tajikistan are not profitable, according to new research presented today at a news conference at the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports discussion on implementing law on free access to information
Publishing date: 19 December 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Media freedom and development
SKOPJE, 19 December 2007- The challenges of implementing the Law on Free Access to Public Information and ways of improving it were discussed at an OSCE Mission-supported event in Skopje today...
OSCE human rights body, Yad Vashem launch teachers' guide on addressing anti-Semitism
Publishing date: 19 December 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Education, Tolerance and non-discrimination
WARSAW/JERUSALEM, 19 December 2007- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, today launched a guide for teachers on how to address anti-Semitism...
OSCE Mission presents publications to support judicial reform and legislative process in Georgia
Publishing date: 19 December 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Rule of law
TBILISI, 19 December 2007.- The OSCE Mission to Georgia is supporting judicial reform and the legislative process in the country with two new publications aimed at legal professionals. A two-volume work on the constitutions of foreign countries was...