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OSCE Office launches web site for Mingechevir City Police
Publishing date: 15 September 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Education, Policing
BAKU, 15 September 2008- The OSCE Office in Baku and the Interior Ministry inaugurated a new web site for police in the city of Mingechevir today, making this city the first in the country to have such a police department site...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports training course for new police inspectors
Publishing date: 15 September 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Education, Policing, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
SKOPJE, 15 September 2008-A three-week training course on community policing organized by the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje started today in the southern village of Krani...
OSCE Presence, USAID publish book to assist implementation of domestic violence law
Publishing date: 31 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Education, Gender equality, Policing, Rule of law
TIRANA, 31 July 2008- The OSCE Presence in Albania and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) published this week a judicial manual that will help courts to implement the country's law on domestic violence...
International co-operation to fight drug trafficking focus of OSCE experts meeting
Publishing date: 17 July 2008
VIENNA, 17 July 2008- How international co-operation can make the fight against trafficking in illicit drugs and chemical precursors more effective is the focus of a two-day OSCE expert conference that began today in Vienna...
OSCE hosts Central Asia legal workshop to help boost fight against organized crime
Publishing date: 9 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretariat
ALMATY, 9 July 2008- International legal experts joined 68 counterparts from Central Asia, Afghanistan and Ukraine today at an OSCE-hosted workshop focusing on confiscating criminal assets, combating money laundering...
Human trafficking, migrant smuggling in Central Asia threaten security and human rights, says OSCE official
Publishing date: 15 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Policing
TASHKENT, 15 May 2008- The need to distinguish between trafficking in human beings and human smuggling, and to tackle the crimes from both a security and human rights perspective, were emphasized at an OSCE workshop that concluded in Tashkent today...
Combating human trafficking, migrant smuggling in Central Asia focus of OSCE workshop
Publishing date: 14 May 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Policing
TASHKENT, 14 May 2008- Building capacity of national criminal justice systems in Central Asia and improving co-operation and information exchange between investigative agencies and central authorities are the aims of a workshop in Tashkent today...