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OSCE Centre in Astana promotes regional confidence- and security-building measures
Publishing date: 16 July 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
ALMATY, 16 July 2007- Implementing confidence- and security-building measures in compliance with the Vienna Document 1999 is the main topic of a regional training course that began in Almaty today.
OSCE Chairman calls for renewed efforts to address CFE Treaty concerns
Publishing date: 14 July 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
MADRID, 14 July 2007- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, said today he had taken note, with concern, of Russia's decision to suspend its participation in the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator to train Ukrainian journalists on reporting on human trafficking
Publishing date: 13 July 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, 13 July 2007- How journalists can cover human trafficking in a reliable, responsible and sensitive way while avoiding stigmatizing and further traumatizing victims is the topic of a series of training sessions organized by the OSCE Project...
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen issue statement
Publishing date: 13 July 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Minsk Group
VIENNA, 13 July 2007- The three Minsk Group Co-Chairmen- Ambassador Yury Merzlyakov of Russia, Ambassador Bernard Fassier of France and Ambassador Matthew Bryza of the United States- issued the following statement today:...
Top OSCE official calls crackdown on human rights defenders 'dangerous development'
Publishing date: 13 July 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Rule of law
VIENNA, 13 July 2007- OSCE participating States should work to ensure that crack-downs legitimate human rights concerns come to an end, participants agreed at an OSCE conference concluded today...
OSCE Mission to Skopje continues to help police improve their investigative interviewing skills
Publishing date: 12 July 2007
SKOPJE, 13 July 2007- Twenty six police officers received certificates at the ceremony today after completion of a training course on professional interviewing techniques, organized by the OSCE Mission to Skopje with the Ministry of the Interior.
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan helps organize roundtable on harmonizing laws to strengthen role of human rights ombudsman
Publishing date: 12 July 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Human rights
TASHKENT, 12 July 2007- A roundtable on harmonizing national legislation with the law on Uzbekistan's human right ombudsman took place in Tashkent yesterday and made recommendations on how to amend laws to improve the role of the ombudsman.