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OSCE Kosovo Mission begins specialized police and public safety training programmes
Publishing date: 11 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Policing
PRISTINA, 11 November 2003- The OSCE-run Kosovo Police Service School this week begins advanced training programmes for the Kosovo Police Service and public safety agencies. Specific curricula for courses in special weapons and tactics (SWAT)...
Serbian and Kosovo journalists discuss common issues
Publishing date: 10 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 11 November 2003- A follow-up meeting to establish an information network between Serbian and Kosovo editors-in-chief, media executives and leading journalists has started this morning in Skopje. Organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and...
OSCE and Women's Union of Turkmenistan promote gender training
Publishing date: 10 November 2003
ASHGABAD, 10 November 2003- A four-day training seminar on promoting gender issues has ended in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabad. The seminar, the first of a series of three, was organized in close co-operation with the Women's Union of Turkmenistan...
OSCE Skopje Mission starts training police community relations co-ordinators
Publishing date: 10 November 2003
SKOPJE, 10 November 2003- Thirty-two police officers of mixed ethnicity and gender are attending their first day of OSCE training on community policing today in the Hotel Bistra in Mavrovo. The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje developed...
New information programme supports Serbia and Montenegro's European integration
Publishing date: 10 November 2003
BELGRADE, 10 November 2003- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro and the European Movement in Serbia today launched a new information programme in the parliament of Serbia and Montenegro in support of European integration. The programme...
Stop using evidence obtained by torture, OSCE human rights body says
Publishing date: 7 November 2003
Content type: Press release
What we do: Human rights
WARSAW/VIENNA, 7 November 2003- The Director of the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Ambassador Christian Strohal, today called on OSCE participating States to take measures to prevent the use of evidence...
OSCE Academy calls for applications for new regional security studies course in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 7 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
BISHKEK, 7 November 2003- The OSCE Centre and the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, today announced the start of the first masters programme on comprehensive security issues in Central Asia. The Academy called for applications from...