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Training programme prepares over 3,500 police officers for Macedonian parliamentary elections

Publishing date: 16 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Skopje
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...

UN Human Rights Commissioner stresses link between human rights and security

Publishing date: 19 July 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Permanent Council, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights, Countering terrorism
VIENNA, 19 July 2002- The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, said on Friday that the fight against terrorism must be fought in full conformity with international human rights standards...

Second of three seminars in Georgia focused on human rights monitoring and reporting

Publishing date: 5 July 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
TBILISI, 5 July 2002- The second of three training seminars on international human rights law and relevant monitoring techniques ended today in Georgia. Participants from eight different cities, among them representatives of 21 Georgian...

Human rights training for law enforcement bodies of Rasht Valley in Tajikistan completed

Publishing date: 2 July 2002
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, 2 July 2002- The OSCE Mission to Tajikistan and the Tajik Government have completed a series of training seminars on "Human Rights and Citizens' Rights during Arrest, Detention and Pre-trial Investigation" for law enforcement...

OSCE meeting in Baku stresses need to ensure religious freedom while combating extremism

Publishing date: 18 June 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Countering terrorism
BAKU, 18 June 2002- The need to ensure religious freedom in the fight against extremism was stressed by participants at an OSCE meeting in Baku on 17 and 18 June. "Freedom of thought, conscience, religion and belief belong to the most...