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OSCE Mission to Skopje supports confidence building between police and Roma population
Publishing date: 18 March 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
SKOPJE, 18 March 2010- The OSCE-supported project to improve relations between Roma community and the police was launched today in Vinica municipality in the east of the country.
OSCE holds lecture series on human rights in criminal justice at Turkmenistan State University
Publishing date: 17 March 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Human rights, Education, Rule of law
ASHGABAT, 17 March 2010- Thirty-five students of the faculty of Law and International Relations at the Magtymguly Turkmen State University are learning about administration of criminal justice in a series of lectures which ends on Friday...
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
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...
OSCE Mission in Kosovo to present report on use of detention
Publishing date: 12 March 2010
Content type: Press statement
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Rule of law
PRISHTINE/PRISTINA, 12 March 2010- The use of detention and the judges' justification for detention is the topic of a report to be presented at a news conference on Monday by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo...
Post-election trials reveal shortcomings in Armenia's justice system, new OSCE/ODIHR report says
Publishing date: 8 March 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Elections, Rule of law
WARSAW, 8 March 2010- The conduct of the trials that took place in the aftermath of the March 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan reveals shortcomings in Armenia's justice system, concludes a report published today by the OSCE Office...
Closer co-ordination between OSCE, Council of Europe would benefit all states, says OSCE Chairperson
Publishing date: 5 March 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution
GENEVA, 5 March 2010- The OSCE and the Council of Europe work together well, but an even closer co-operation would be beneficial, said OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, State Secretary and Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Kanat Saudabayev, following...
Monitoring crucial for press freedom, says OSCE media freedom representative in final report
Publishing date: 4 March 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 4 March 2010- Monitoring of the kind that takes place within the OSCE is crucial to encourage countries to uphold press freedom commitments, stressed Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE's Representative on Freedom of the Media...