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Belarus still has considerable way to go in meeting OSCE commitments, despite certain improvements, election observers say

Publishing date: 19 December 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Elections
MINSK, 20 December 2010- Yesterday's presidential election showed that Belarus still has a considerable way to go in meeting its OSCE commitments, although some specific improvements were made, concluded the international observers from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA)...

OSCE supports preventing human trafficking, assisting victims in Armenia

Publishing date: 16 December 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
AGHVERAN, Armenia, 17 December 2010- A national forum on the implementation of the Armenian national referral procedure of trafficked victims organized by the Anti-Trafficking Support and Resource Unit (ATSRU) established by the OSCE office and operating within the Labour and Social Affairs Ministry of Armenia, started today in Aghveran...

OSCE Mission to Serbia offers assistance to Bosniak National Minority Council election process

Publishing date: 13 December 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Human rights, Elections, National minority issues
BELGRADE, 14 December 2010 – The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Dimitrios Kypreos, today offered the Mission's assistance to the upcoming Bosniak National Minority Council elections, which were announced earlier this week by the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights...

OSCE Mission announces 2010 “Person of the Year” award

Publishing date: 13 December 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
BELGRADE, 14 December 2010 – Brankica Stankovic, an investigative journalist from B92 television, received the OSCE Mission to Serbia’s 2010 “Person of the Year” award at a ceremony held in Belgrade today...

OSCE Centre holds international conference on freedom of peaceful assembly

Publishing date: 12 December 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
ASTANA, 13 December 2010- A roundtable on international standards on freedom of peaceful assembly, co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Astana, started today...

Human rights rock with OSCE support: festivities to mark Human Rights Day in Armenia

Publishing date: 9 December 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Human rights
YEREVAN, 10 December 2010- 'Speak up, stop discrimination' is the slogan of a rock concert and a human rights fair organized today with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan to mark Human Rights Day in Armenia...

OSCE and UN OHCHR in Kosovo mark International Human Rights Day

Publishing date: 8 December 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights
PRISHTINE/PRISTINA, 9 December 2010- On the occasion of the International Human Rights Day, Ambassador Werner Almhofer, the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, and Paul Miller, the Head of the Office in Kosovo for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN OHCHR) said the following: