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OSCE hosts Europe's largest human rights and democracy conference in Warsaw

Publishing date: 29 September 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
WARSAW, 29 September 2008- Government representatives, experts and human rights defenders from the OSCE's 56 participating States gathered in Warsaw today for the opening of Europe's largest human rights and democracy conference...

OSCE Centre organizes study visit to Sweden by Turkmenistan lawmakers

Publishing date: 29 September 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Rule of law
ASHGABAD, 29 September 2008- Four members of Turkmenistan's Mejlis (Parliament) and a representative from the National Institute for Democracy and Human Rights have completed a study visit to Sweden...

OSCE Mission to Serbia supports forum on police education

Publishing date: 29 September 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Policing
BELGRADE, 29 September 2008- Some 150 national and international policing experts gathered today in Belgrade at the International Forum on Police Education, Training and Learning to discuss the latest trends in...

OSCE Mission to Skopje supports training Ombudsman staff to monitor police stations

Publishing date: 29 September 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Human rights, Policing
SKOPJE, 29 September 2008-Strengthening the capacity of the Ombudsman Institution to monitor police custody facilities is the aim of a training course, supported by the OSCE Mission, which started in Skopje today...

OSCE Centre trains Kyrgyz police officers on conflict prevention and negotiation skills

Publishing date: 27 September 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Policing
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 27 September 2008- More than 500 police officers from Kyrgyzstan's Naryn and Issyk-Kul provinces participated in a series of OSCE-organized training courses on conflict prevention and negotiation skills, which ended today...

Armenia should lift moratorium on licensing broadcasters to ensure media pluralism, says OSCE media freedom representative

Publishing date: 26 September 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Digital switchover, Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 26 September 2008- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, today asked the Government of Armenia to review amendments to the TV and radio law that introduce a moratorium on issuing new broadcasting licenses...

OSCE media freedom representative urges Bulgarian authorities to swiftly prosecute violent attacks against journalists

Publishing date: 26 September 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 26 September 2008- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, today asked the Bulgarian authorities to accelerate the bringing to justice of perpetrators of recent violent attacks against journalists...