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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE releases Annual Report on 2004 activities
Publishing date: 29 April 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Main Website, OSCE Secretariat
VIENNA, 29 April 2005- The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the world's largest regional security arrangement, released its Annual Report 2004 today...
OSCE Special Representative calls on financial institutions to help prevent human trafficking
Publishing date: 28 April 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
PARIS, 28 April 2005- The OSCE Special Representative on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings called upon financial institutions to develop comprehensive poverty-reduction strategies to help reduce trafficking in human beings...
OSCE must play bigger role in ending violence against women, says Chairman-in-Office
Publishing date: 28 April 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Main Website
What we do: Human rights, Gender equality
PARIS, 28 April 2005- Violence against women is not only a widespread global problem but also a major obstacle to women's expression of free will and humanity's progress towards equality, development and peace, the OSCE Chairman said today in Paris...
OSCE Centre helps fight money laundering and terrorism financing in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 28 April 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Countering terrorism
BISHKEK, 28 April 2005- Establishing a financial intelligence unit and developing a national strategy to fight money laundering and terrorism financing are the focus of a meeting in Bishkek on 28 and 29 April...
OSCE Skopje Mission helps improve community based policing
Publishing date: 27 April 2005
SKOPJE, 27 April 2005- Fifty officers, who underwent a special OSCE-supported course to become trainers in community policing, will receive awards at a graduating ceremony in Bitola on April 29. The event will mark the completion...
OSCE Mission says domestic war crimes trials have improved in Croatia but more progress needed
Publishing date: 26 April 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
ZAGREB, 26 April 2005- In a report on war crime trials in Croatian courts, the OSCE Mission to Croatia acknowledged recent improvements but concluded that additional reform is needed to provide for impartial domestic adjudication of war crimes in...
Chairman's envoy welcomes readiness to hold political dialogue in Kyrgyzstan under OSCE auspices
Publishing date: 26 April 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Personal Representatives of the Chairperson-in-Office, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BISHKEK, 26 April 2005- The Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office in Central Asia welcomed the readiness of Kyrgyz officials' to see the dialogue between political forces in the country held under the auspices of the OSCE...