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OSCE explores next steps in strengthening comprehensive cyber security
Publishing date: 9 May 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism, Policing
VIENNA, 9 May 2011- The OSCE’s future role in tackling challenges arising from cyberspace security is the topic of a two-day international conference that started in Vienna today...
‘Post-conflict rehabilitation: stabilization, reconstruction and peacebuilding’ focus of OSCE workshop
Publishing date: 2 May 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Lithuania's OSCE Chairmanship, with the support of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre, is hosting a workshop in Vienna on the post-conflict rehabilitation capacity of the Organization. The event is the second in a series of expert meetings on early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation taking place under the “V[ienna] to V[ilnius] Dialogue”...
Protecting workers' rights can prevent human trafficking, says OSCE Special Representative ahead of International Labour Day
Publishing date: 29 April 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
VIENNA, 29 April 2011 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, stressed today that promotion of decent work and protection of workers' rights, including freedom of assembly and association, can help prevent and combat trafficking in human beings for labour exploitation...
OSCE Special Representative, in Kosovo, highlights need to improve criminal justice response to human trafficking
Publishing date: 19 April 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 19 April 2011 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, stressed today the need to improve the criminal justice response to human trafficking at a training session for judges and prosecutors in Prishtinë/Priština...
Expert meeting on enhancing the OSCE’s early warning capacity
Publishing date: 15 April 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 15 April 2011 – Developing a more systematic, comprehensive and cross-dimensional early warning capacity to enhance the OSCE’s capability to prevent and respond to emerging crisis situations is the focus of an expert meeting in Vienna today...
The criminal justice response to trafficking should be more effective, says OSCE Special Representative
Publishing date: 6 April 2011
Criminal justice response practices require significant change to strengthen anti-trafficking action, the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, said during an international training seminar focusing on penal law, migration, trafficking and international co-operation, in Rome on 5 April.
Need for integrated and co-ordinated policies for sustainable transport focus of OSCE meeting
Publishing date: 4 April 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
DRUSKININKAI, Lithuania, 4 April 2011 – The need for co-ordinated policies to ensure transport grows sustainably to benefit the environment as well as the economy is the topic of a two-day preparatory meeting that opened today in the Lithuanian town of Druskininkai...