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OSCE releases Annual Report on 2005 activities
Publishing date: 26 April 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
VIENNA, 26 April 2006- The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the world's largest regional security arrangement, released its Annual Report 2005 today...
OSCE Office begins training course to monitor places of detention in Armenia
Publishing date: 26 April 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Policing
YEREVAN, 26 April 2006- A four-day training course to increase the professional capacity of public monitoring groups to monitor places of detention started today in Tsakhkadzor in Armenia. The course, organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan together...
OSCE Chairman raises rule of law, democratic institutions and economic development with Albanian authorities; urges resumed work on electoral reform
Publishing date: 26 April 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Presence in Albania
TIRANA, 26 April 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, held talks in Tirana with President Alfred Moisiu, Prime Minister Sali Berisha and Foreign Minister Besnik Mustafaj. The OSCE Chairman called on Albanian...
OSCE, Council of Europe concerned over Serbian Law on Churches and Religious Communities
Publishing date: 26 April 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
BELGRADE, 26 April 2006- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro and the Council of Europe Office in Belgrade express their concern about certain provisions of the recently adopted Serbian Law on Churches and Religious Communities...
OSCE-Thailand conference focuses on challenges to security 'from poverty to pandemics'
Publishing date: 25 April 2006
Content type: Press release
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
BANGKOK, 25 April 2006- OSCE, Thai and regional officials are focusing over the next two days on challenges to global security, at an international conference under the theme 'From Poverty to Pandemic'. Meeting for the third time in Bangkok since...
OSCE/ODIHR deploys team to observe partial repeat of parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 25 April 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Elections
WARSAW/BAKU, 25 April 2006- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has established a Limited Election Observation Mission in Baku in advance of repeat parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, being held on 13 May in 10 of...
OSCE/ODIHR report on Uzbekistan trials calls for verdicts on 15 Andijan defendants to be set aside
Publishing date: 24 April 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Countering terrorism, Rule of law
WARSAW, 23 April 2006- In a report released today, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, ODIHR, raises concerns regarding violations of the right to a fair trial in Uzbekistan. The report is based on monitoring of the trials...