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OSCE Mission organizes study visit for Serbian officials to the Special Court for Sierra Leone
Publishing date: 14 December 2007
BELGRADE, 14 December 2007- Senior officials from Serbia's judicial institutions for war crimes and Serbian journalists took part in an OSCE-organized study visit to Sierra Leone's Special Court and Truth and Reconciliation Commission this week...
OSCE Mission to Skopje promotes inter-ethnic dialogue through mountaineering
Publishing date: 14 December 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: National minority issues, Tolerance and non-discrimination
SKOPJE, 14 December 2007- A multiethnic group of young mountaineers who completed a year-long OSCE Mission-supported course received their licences as professional mountain guides today at a ceremony in Skopje...
OSCE officials visit water supply projects in Georgia's conflict zone
Publishing date: 14 December 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
TSKHINVALI, Georgia, 14 December 2007- The OSCE Head of the Mission to Georgia, Ambassador Terhi Hakala, and the British Ambassador to Georgia, Denis Keefe, today visited several completed OSCE water supply projects that provide safe drinking water...
OSCE Centre supports work on draft law to combat money-laundering and financing of terrorism in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 13 December 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Countering terrorism
ALMATY, 13 December 2007- A discussion on the draft law on fighting money-laundering and combating the financing of terrorism in Kazakhstan began today in Almaty...
OSCE-ILO-IOM present handbook on managing migration in the Mediterranean region
Publishing date: 12 December 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Human rights, Migration
RABAT, 12 December 2007- Enhanced co-operation and more targeted policies are needed to effectively manage increasingly complex labour migration patterns in the Mediterranean, argues a new handbook presented today by the OSCE...
OSCE workshop discusses compensation for trafficked persons
Publishing date: 12 December 2007
Content type: Press release
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
BARCELONA, 12 December 2007- Compensating victims of trafficking is the focus of a workshop organized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) that concludes today in Barcelona...
OSCE media watchdog calls for protection of sources law in France after journalist charged over intelligence leaks
Publishing date: 12 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
VIENNA, 12 December 2007- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today called upon the French government to introduce, as pledged, measures to ensure the protection of journalistic sources...