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Tajik Street Law Clinic opened doors
Publishing date: 1 October 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
DUSHANBE, 1 October 2001 (OSCE)- Today, the first Tajik Legal Clinic opened its doors at the Law Faculty of the Slavonic University in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The Street Law Clinic represents the initial step in the creation of a Legal Support Center...
OSCE to organize conference on import and storage of radioactive waste in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 26 September 2001
Content type: Press release
ALMATY, 10 September 2001 (OSCE)- On 19 and 20 October, an OSCE-initiated two-day conference focusing on the import and storage of radioactive waste in Kazakhstan is scheduled to take place in the country\'s capital Almaty...
OSCE human rights office calls for independent investigation of unsolved disappearances and murders in Belarus and Ukraine
Publishing date: 24 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
WARSAW, 21 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE's human rights institution, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), today called for an independent investigation of the murder of the Ukrainian journalist Georgyi Gongadze...
OSCE's human rights office concerned about anti-Muslim violence
Publishing date: 19 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
WARSAW, 19 September 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE's human rights office today expressed concern about the recent wave of anti-Muslim incidents and violence in several OSCE countries following last week's terror attacks in the United States...
OSCE to make fight against terrorism top priority
Publishing date: 17 September 2001
Content type: Press release
WARSAW, 17 September 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE will make the fight against terrorism a top priority. In a message to the opening of the annual OSCE human rights conference, the Organization's Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana...
Belarus presidential election: statement of preliminary findings and conclusions
Publishing date: 10 September 2001
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
MINSK, 10 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The International Limited Election Observation Mission (ILEOM) for the September 2001 presidential election in Belarus has published today a statement of preliminary findings and conclusions...
OSCE Special Co-ordinator for Belarusian election observation concludes visit to Belarus
Publishing date: 29 August 2001
Content type: Press release
What we do: Democratization, Elections
MINSK, 29 August, 2001 (OSCE)-- Kimmo Kiljunen MP (Finland), the Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, visited Minsk on 28 and 29 August 2001. Mr. Kiljunen has been named by the OSCE Chairman-in-Office as Special Co-ordinator...