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OSCE States hold high-level consultations on reform of the Organization
Publishing date: 13 September 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
VIENNA, 13 September 2005- A two-day, high-level meeting of the OSCE participating States has been considering wide-ranging proposals for the reform of the 55-nation body. These consultations continued a process...
OSCE Mission supports public discussion in Skopje on judiciary reform
Publishing date: 13 September 2005
SKOPJE, 13 September 2005- More than 50 representatives from national judicial institutions, as well as local and international organizations working on judicial reform, participated in a discussion yesterday in Skopje on reforming the judiciary.
OSCE Mission holds human rights training for Georgian law enforcement officials
Publishing date: 12 September 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Policing
TBILISI, 12 September 2005- Twenty law enforcement officials in Samtskhe-Javakheti started a three-day OSCE course today on international standards for human rights protection, including the rights of ethnic minorities. Organized by the Mission...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office offers expertise to partner states at Mediterranean Seminar
Publishing date: 8 September 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation
What we do: Human rights, Tolerance and non-discrimination
RABAT, Morocco, 8 September 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, expressed strong support for the OSCE's activities with adjacent regions in his keynote address at the 11th OSCE Mediterranean Partners Seminar...
Office of OSCE media freedom representative trains journalists and press officers in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 8 September 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
SARYOY, KYRGYZSTAN, 8 September 2005- Strengthening relations between State authorities and the media and increasing the access of civil society to official information was the aim of a training course organized in Kyrgyzstan by...
OSCE/ODIHR opens Election Observation Mission in Baku
Publishing date: 8 September 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
BAKU, 8 September 2005- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has deployed an Election Observation Mission to observe the 6 November parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan. The mission includes 43 election experts...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine signs Plan of Co-operation with Central Election Commission
Publishing date: 8 September 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Elections
KYIV, 8 September 2005- The Ukrainian Central Election Commission (CEC) today signed a Plan of Co-operation with the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine during a joint press conference at CEC headquarters.