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OSCE human rights conference ends with call for redoubled efforts to eradicate human rights violations
Publishing date: 19 September 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Elections
WARSAW, 19 September 2002- The OSCE's annual human rights conference ended today with a strong call on governments to redouble efforts to eradicate human rights violations and push forward democratic reform in the OSCE area spanning...
OSCE Strategic Police Matters Unit to visit Baku
Publishing date: 19 September 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Countering terrorism, Policing
BAKU, 19 September 2002- A delegation of the OSCE Strategic Police Matters Unit (SPMU) will visit Baku from 21 to 27 September, to evaluate the possibilities for technical assistance in order to strengthen OSCE's police-related...
Roma to combat human trafficking among their own ranks
Publishing date: 19 September 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights, Roma and Sinti
WARSAW, 19 September 2002- Roma NGOs publicly acknowledged the involvement of individuals of their ethnic group in trafficking in human beings and expressed their determination to co-operate in combating this serious human rights and organized...
OSCE Media Representative concerned over sentencing of a Belarusian journalist, calls for repealing criminal libel laws
Publishing date: 17 September 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 17 September 2002- Europe's top media watchdog, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, has expressed his concern today about the sentencing of the Belarusian journalist, Viktor Ivashkevich, for allegedly insulting...
OSCE organizes economic competition policy seminar in Armenia
Publishing date: 17 September 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
YEREVAN, 17 September 2002- A seminar on good governance in economic policy development and the promotion of economic competition in Armenia, was co-organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan last week...
OSCE Mission welcomes "victory for Macedonian democratic process"
Publishing date: 17 September 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Elections
SKOPJE, 17 September, 2002- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje has joined the leaders of the International Election Observation Mission, led by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, in congratulating the Macedonian authorities...
OSCE and Spanish Ministry of Interior organizes study visit for Serbian prison officials
Publishing date: 17 September 2002
BELGRADE, 17 September 2002-- A delegation of three Serbian prison officials- two from penitentiary institutions and one from the Ministry of Justice- are participating from 14 to 21 September in a study visit to penitentiary institutions in Spain...