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Annual OSCE human rights conference opens on Monday
Publishing date: 5 September 2002
Content type: Press release
WARSAW, 5 September 2002- The annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting will kick off on Monday, 9 September, in Warsaw with a speech by the former President of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari. More than 500 participants are expected at...
OSCE trains trainers on women's rights in Armenia
Publishing date: 2 September 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Human rights
YEREVAN, 2 September 2002- An OSCE training session on women's rights brought together 22 young women from all 11 marzes (regions in Armenia) representing a wide spectrum of society. Representatives of local authorities, academics, teachers...
OSCE condemns violent attack on journalist in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 30 August 2002
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/VIENNA, 30 August 2002- The two OSCE institutions dealing with human rights and media freedom today jointly condemned the violent attack on Sergei Duvanov, a journalist and human rights defender who was assaulted and severely injured...
Largest pan-European human rights conference convenes in Warsaw
Publishing date: 28 August 2002
Content type: Press release
WARSAW, 28 August 2002- More than 500 government representatives, international experts and human rights activists will gather in Warsaw from 9 to 19 September to attend Europe's largest human rights and democratization conference. The...
Training programme prepares over 3,500 police officers for Macedonian parliamentary elections
Publishing date: 16 August 2002
Content type: Press release
What we do: Human rights, Elections, Policing
SKOPJE, 16 August, 2002- More than 3,500 police officers have completed a training course on how to ensure security in line with international policing practices during the forthcoming parliamentary elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of...
OSCE's human rights office concerned about broadening of prosecutors' powers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 16 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
WARSAW, 16 August 2002- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) expressed its concern about a new law broadening the powers of the Prosecutor's Office in Kazakhstan. The law was passed by Parliament...
OSCE Mission to Tajikistan extends human rights training for law enforcement bodies to Khatlon Region
Publishing date: 1 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Human rights
DUSHANBE, 1 August 2002- The OSCE Mission and the Tajik Government has extended their joint human training courses for law enforcement bodies to the Khatlon Region in the south of the country. A series of training sessions on "Human Rights and...