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OSCE countries need to intensify efforts to prevent human trafficking for labour exploitation, high-level meeting concludes
Publishing date: 17 November 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
VIENNA, 17 November 2006- The OSCE's 56 participating States need to co-operate within and across borders to intensify their efforts to combat human trafficking for purposes of labour exploitation, participants at a high-level meeting...
Fight against terrorism and human rights issues focus of OSCE workshop in Liechtenstein
Publishing date: 17 November 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Countering terrorism
VADUZ, 17 November 2006- Protecting human rights in the fight against terrorism and legal aspects in this respect were the focus of a three-day workshop which concluded in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, today...
OSCE conference on land degradation and soil contamination begins in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 16 November 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
BISHKEK, 16 November 2006- An international two-day OSCE conference, focusing on land degradation and soil contamination, began today in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan...
Belgian OSCE Chairmanship stresses importance of prosecuting offenders and justice for victims of human trafficking for forced labour
Publishing date: 16 November 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
VIENNA, 16 November 2006- The Belgian Secretary of State for European Affairs, Didier Donfut, called, on behalf of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Karel De Gucht, for a comprehensive and pro-active strategy for fighting trafficking in human beings...
OSCE Office helps organize discussion on tolerance in Armenia
Publishing date: 16 November 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
YEREVAN, 16 November 2006- Ways of promoting tolerance were discussed at an international conference in Yerevan today
Skopje IT conference supported by OSCE Mission, Representative on Freedom of the Media
Publishing date: 15 November 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
SKOPJE, 15 November 2006- The second international conference on Information Technology, supported by the OSCE's Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje and the Representative on Freedom of the Media, opened in Skopje today. Organized by...
OSCE Presence trains Albanian criminal justice professionals
Publishing date: 15 November 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
TIRANA, 15 November 2006- The OSCE Presence in Albania organized a series of seminars in Tirana and Vlora for more than 60 criminal justice professionals on the European Court of Human Rights cases on the deprivation of liberty...