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OSCE Presence supports training on Aarhus Convention in Albania
Publishing date: 28 March 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Environmental activities
TIRANA, 28 March 2007- Municipal officials, representatives of ministries, regional environmental agencies and NGOs took part in a training course on the Aarhus environmental Convention, a key environmental information tool, that ended in Tirana today...
OSCE press freedom watchdog hails Kyrgyzstan for decriminalizing libel and allowing public broadcasting
Publishing date: 27 March 2007
Content type: Press release
VIENNA, 27 March 2007- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, today commended the Kyrgyz Parliament's decision to abolish criminal libel and insult laws as well as President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's "green light" for public...
OSCE Vienna meeting focuses on freedoms of assembly, association and expression
Publishing date: 27 March 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
VIENNA, 27 March 2007- Full and equal participation in pluralist societies is the focus of an OSCE conference starting in Vienna on Thursday.
OSCE Presence in Albania marks 10th anniversary
Publishing date: 27 March 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
TIRANA, 27 March 2007- The OSCE Presence in Albania marks its 10th anniversary today. It was created by an OSCE Permanent Council decision on 27 March 1997 in response to the breakdown of law and order in the country...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator trains NGOs to help trafficking victims
Publishing date: 26 March 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
KYIV, 26 March 2007- Twenty five NGO representatives are taking part in a training course on helping victims of human trafficking, organized this week by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union...
OSCE Representative marks 200th anniversary of slave trade abolition
Publishing date: 26 March 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
VIENNA, 26 March 2007- The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Eva Biaudet, issued the following statement today...
OSCE Chairman condemns shooting of Georgian policemen in zone of Georgian-Ossetian conflict
Publishing date: 26 March 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
MADRID, 26 March 2007- The OSCE Chairman Miguel Angel Moratinos expressed his deep concern today about Sunday's fatal shooting of two Georgian policemen in the Didmukha area in the west of the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict...