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OSCE Mission to Moldova launches new trial monitoring report

Publishing date: 19 June 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Rule of law
CHISINAU, 19 June 2008- The OSCE Mission to Moldova launched the second report of the OSCE Trial Monitoring Programme for the Republic of Moldova today in Chisinau...

OSCE trains state press officers, journalists in northern Tajikistan to promote public access to information

Publishing date: 19 June 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Media freedom and development
KHUJAND, Tajikistan, 19 June 2008- Fostering effective communication between public bodies and the media is the aim of a two-day OSCE training course that started in Khujand today...

OSCE media freedom representative protests prison sentence handed to publisher of book on Turkish history

Publishing date: 19 June 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Media freedom and development, Media pluralism, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 19 June 2008- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today condemned the five-month prison sentence handed down to Turkish publisher Ragip Zarakolu for "insulting the institutions of the Turkish Republic"...

OSCE special representative urges Azerbajiani authorities to co-operate with NGOs to better identify victims of human trafficking

Publishing date: 18 June 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
BAKU, 18 June 2008- The OSCE Special Representative for Combating Human Trafficking, Eva Biaudet, commended Azerbaijan today for passing important anti-trafficking laws, and encouraged authorities to step up co-operation with NGOs to better identify...

OSCE Mission to Skopje supports traffic police with a donation of scooters and bicycles

Publishing date: 18 June 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Policing
SKOPJE, 18 June 2008- The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje donated scooters, bicycles and additional equipment today to support the work of the Interior Ministry's traffic police...

OSCE Mission to Serbia supports regional conference on media, marketing and business

Publishing date: 18 June 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Economic activities, Media freedom and development
BELGRADE, 18 June 2008- More than a hundred media professionals and experts from the region gathered in Belgrade today to discuss the media business environment and ways to improve regional co-operation in the field...

Aarhus Convention, environmental strategy for Armenia discussed at OSCE-supported conference

Publishing date: 18 June 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Environmental activities
YEREVAN, 18 June 2008- A strategy for implementing the Aarhus Convention in Armenia and closer co-operation on environmental matters at the national and international levels are the focus of a conference that opened in Yerevan today...