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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Georgia supports reform of Tbilisi penitentiary and probation system
Publishing date: 8 June 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
TBILISI, 8 June 2007- Enhancing the professional expertise of probation officers and general staff of the Rustavi prison in Tbilisi was the aim of an OSCE-organized training course which ended today...
OSCE Centre supports public monitoring of pre-trial detention centres in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 8 June 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
ALMATY, 8 June 2007- Public oversight and preventing torture in pre-trial detention centers and prisons in Kazakhstan were discussed at a meeting in Almaty today...
OSCE States must do more to promote tolerance, Chairman tells high-level meeting
Publishing date: 7 June 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
BUCHAREST, 7 June 2007- Intolerance and discrimination could threaten global security, and the OSCE's participating States need to strengthen efforts to avert this threat, the OSCE's Chairman-in-Office Miguel Angel Moratinos said today.
OSCE Mission, UNHCR call for full integration of refugees who want to stay in Serbia
Publishing date: 6 June 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
BELGRADE, 6 June 2007- A discussion held in the southern Serbian city of Nis today concluded that refugees who want to stay in Serbia need to be allowed to fully integrate into Serbian society...
OSCE Centre trains public servants to protect environment while implementing land reform in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 6 June 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Environmental activities
VARZOB, Tajikistan, 6 June 2007- Teaching public servants to apply environmental protection mechanisms while managing the land reform process is the aim of an OSCE-supported seminar which ends in Varzob, near Dushanbe, on Friday...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports Parliamentary television with equipment donation
Publishing date: 6 June 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Education, Media freedom and development
SKOPJE, 6 June 2007- The OSCE Mission to Skopje today handed over audio and visual production equipment worth about 140,000 euros to the Parliament for use by the Parliamentary Channel...
OSCE Centre helps devise and implement gender policies in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 5 June 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Democratization, Gender equality, Tolerance and non-discrimination
KHUJAND, Tajikistan, 5 June 2007- Raising awareness of gender equality issues among civil servants and providing them with gender analysis tools for their everyday work are the aims of a five-day OSCE-supported training course which started in Khujand...