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Regional OSCE/ODIHR expert meeting discusses challenges to judicial independence

Publishing date: 23 June 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
KYIV, 23 June 2010- Experts from the OSCE region are discussing challenges to judicial independence in Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia at an OSCE-organized workshop that started in Kyiv today...

OSCE human rights chief to visit Turkmenistan

Publishing date: 15 June 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Rule of law
WARSAW, 15 June 2010- The Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Ambassador Janez Lenarcic, is travelling to Ashgabat today for talks on how ODIHR can assist the authorities in implementing the commitments...

OSCE Annual Police Experts Meeting discusses enhancing policing activities, calls for better co-ordination

Publishing date: 21 May 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, National minority issues, Policing, Roma and Sinti, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
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...

Judicial independence and access to justice remain challenge in OSCE region, participants at Warsaw meeting say

Publishing date: 16 May 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
WARSAW, 17 May 2010- Guaranteeing judicial independence and public access to justice remain a significant challenge in the OSCE region, participants said today at the opening of an OSCE meeting on these topics...

OSCE and Venice Commission host roundtable meeting on constitutional reform in Kyrgyzstan

Publishing date: 13 May 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Rule of law
BISHKEK, 13 May, 2010- High-level representatives of Kyrgyzstan's interim government and international experts are meeting today in Bishkek at a roundtable meeting organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights...

European human rights bodies call for decisive action against racism and xenophobia

Publishing date: 19 March 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
WARSAW, STRASBOURG, VIENNA, 19 March 2010- In a joint statement ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the Council of Europe's...

OSCE Roma adviser welcomes European Court ruling against school segregation

Publishing date: 17 March 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Education, Roma and Sinti, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
WARSAW, 17 March 2010- The OSCE's Roma adviser, Andrzej Mirga, today welcomed a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights against segregation of Roma children in elementary schools...