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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Office in Yerevan visits penal colony for women and juveniles
Publishing date: 30 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Policing, Rule of law
YEREVAN, 30 August 2006- OSCE Office representatives and board members of the Public Monitoring Group for Penitentiary Institutions today visited the Abovian Women and Juvenile Colony to present school-related items...
OSCE media freedom representative concerned over jailing of Turkmenistan journalists
Publishing date: 28 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 28 August 2006- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, today criticised the sentencing of journalists in Turkmenistan and condemned the lack of transparency in the handling of the cases.
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports course to improve access to information
Publishing date: 28 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Education, Media freedom and development
SKOPJE, 28 August 2006- A training course that aims to make it easier for journalists and others to gain access to public information started today with the support of the OSCE Mission to Skopje....
OSCE deploys observation mission for general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 25 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WARSAW/SARAJEVO, 25 August 2006- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights today deployed an Election Observation Mission for the general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 1 October...
OSCE-supported project aims to improve economic research capacity in Central Asia for policy-making
Publishing date: 21 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities
BISHKEK, 21 August 2006- Strengthening the research capacity of Central Asian universities to more actively contribute to economic policy-making is the goal of an OSCE-supported project being discussed at a regional conference that opened today...
OSCE Centres help train Kazakh and Kyrgyz journalists to report on labour migration
Publishing date: 17 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
ALMATY, 17 August 2006- A training course on labour migration for journalists from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan began today in Almaty. Organized by the OSCE Centres in Almaty and Bishkek, and the Kazakh International Centre for Journalism MediaNet...
OSCE Chairman welcomes Russia's suspension of extraditions of refugees, praises Kazakhstan for positive steps
Publishing date: 16 August 2006
BRUSSELS, 16 August 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, today said he was pleased by Russia's decision to suspend the extradition of 12 refugees and an asylum-seeker to Uzbekistan...