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Despite progress, more work needed to promote role of women in the security sector, say parliamentarians at Montenegro meeting
Publishing date: 22 June 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro, OSCE Secretariat
CETINJE, Montenegro, 22 June 2010- Although progress has been made in increasing the participation of women in the security sector, more work is needed to further promote their role, participants at an OSCE regional meeting for female...
OSCE Office organizes conference to promote women in local governance
Publishing date: 3 June 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Gender equality
BAKU, 3 June 2010- The importance of increasing women's participation political life is the main focus of a conference organized today by the OSCE Office in Baku together with local non-governmental organizations...
OSCE Annual Police Experts Meeting discusses enhancing policing activities, calls for better co-ordination
Publishing date: 21 May 2010
Content type: Press release
VIENNA, 21 May 2010- Policing experts from the OSCE region discussed enhancing police-related activities and co-operating with international organizations to address transnational threats at the Annual Police Experts Meeting which ends in Vienna today...
Residents in eastern Kyrgyzstan city view police work more positively following OSCE-supported reforms, new opinion poll shows
Publishing date: 9 March 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Democratization, Policing
BISHKEK, 9 March, 2010- The share of residents in the eastern city of Karakol who view police work positively has almost tripled since 2006, when OSCE-supported reforms began, according to the results of a new survey released today...
OSCE Office in Tajikistan supports incorporation of anti-trafficking course in police academy curriculum
Publishing date: 13 November 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
DUSHANBE, 13 November 2009- The OSCE Office in Tajikistan, the OSCE Strategic Police Matters Unit and the Tajik Interior Ministry finished a process today that made an anti-trafficking course part of the curriculum at the Tajik Police Academy...
OSCE, IOM train trainers on labour migration at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek
Publishing date: 29 September 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Democratization, Economic activities, Human rights, Education
BISHKEK, 29 September 2009- A seminar on labour migration organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) started at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek today...
OSCE Centre organizes workshop to encourage public participation in environmental decision-making
Publishing date: 2 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretariat
URALSK, 2 July 2009-A workshop organized by the OSCE Centre in Astana that concluded today in Uralsk in western Kazakhstan aimed to develop co-operation and foster trust in the field of environmental decision-making among regional authorities...