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Tajik Street Law Clinic opened doors

Publishing date: 1 October 2001
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, 1 October 2001 (OSCE)- Today, the first Tajik Legal Clinic opened its doors at the Law Faculty of the Slavonic University in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The Street Law Clinic represents the initial step in the creation of a Legal Support Center...

OSCE human rights office calls for independent investigation of unsolved disappearances and murders in Belarus and Ukraine

Publishing date: 24 September 2001
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, 21 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE's human rights institution, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), today called for an independent investigation of the murder of the Ukrainian journalist Georgyi Gongadze...

OSCE's human rights office concerned about anti-Muslim violence

Publishing date: 19 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues
WARSAW, 19 September 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE's human rights office today expressed concern about the recent wave of anti-Muslim incidents and violence in several OSCE countries following last week's terror attacks in the United States...

OSCE to make fight against terrorism top priority

Publishing date: 17 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Arms control, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
WARSAW, 17 September 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE will make the fight against terrorism a top priority. In a message to the opening of the annual OSCE human rights conference, the Organization's Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana...

OSCE welcomes abolition of exit permits in Kazakhstan

Publishing date: 31 July 2001
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
ALMATY, 31 July 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE Centre in Almaty commends Kazakhstan for having abolished the so-called exit visas by governmental decree on 28 July. In the light of OSCE commitments and repeated recommendations from the OSCE...

OSCE organizes training on women's rights in Uzbekistan

Publishing date: 20 July 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Human rights
SAMARKAND, 20 June 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Centre in Tashkent together with the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) will hold from 23 to 26 July a training on human rights report writing in Samarkand, Uzbekistan...

OSCE/ODIHR Roma contact point concerned about police violence against Roma in Slovakia, encourages remedial actions

Publishing date: 20 July 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues, Roma and Sinti
WARSAW, 20 July 2001 (OSCE)- The Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues of the OSCE\'s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is concerned about the recent manifestation of police violence in Slovakia which resulted in the death...