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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...
OSCE Mission Head urges Croatian Government to support refugee vote in parliamentary elections
Publishing date: 6 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Elections
ZAGREB, 6 November 2003- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Croatia, Ambassador Peter Semneby today urged the Government of Croatia to increase its support for out-of-country refugee voters during the upcoming parliamentary elections...
OSCE Office in Baku alarmed over dismissals
Publishing date: 6 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
BAKU, 6 November 2003- The OSCE Office in Baku today expressed its alarm at the growing number of complaints and reports on dismissals of Azerbaijani citizens from their jobs allegedly on the basis of their political convictions...