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OSCE Centre in Ashgabat organizes high-level seminar on human trafficking

Publishing date: 25 August 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
ASHGABAT, 25 August 2009- More than 45 representatives from Turkmenistan's institutions as well as from international organizations and embassies took part in an OSCE-organized high-level seminar today on combating and preventing human trafficking...

Lack of transparency in developing draft amendments to media law threatens media reform, Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia says

Publishing date: 25 August 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development
BELGRADE, 25 August 2009- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Hans Ola Urstad, expressed concern today about the development of draft amendments to the Public Information Law, saying that the repeated use of urgent procedure posed...

OSCE Centre organizes course on human rights and safety for Kyrgyz prison security units

Publishing date: 14 August 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Policing
BISHKEK, 14 August, 2009- An OSCE-supported human rights and safety course for security units in the Kyrgyz prison system ends tomorrow...

Latest murder of journalist in Russia underlines need for government action, says OSCE media freedom representative

Publishing date: 13 August 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 13 August 2009- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, condemned today the murder of newspaper editor Abdulmalik Akhmedilov in Makhachkala, Dagestan on 11 August, and reiterated his call to Russia's...

OSCE Chairperson shocked by murders of NGO representatives in Chechnya

Publishing date: 13 August 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Media freedom and development, Rule of law
ATHENS, 13 August 2009- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis, said today she was appalled by the killing of the leader of a Chechen aid group and her husband...

OSCE Centre supports meeting to promote public-private partnerships in Kyrgyzstan's fight against terrorism, extremism and radicalisation

Publishing date: 13 August 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Human rights, Countering terrorism
ISSYK-KUL, 13 August 2009- An OSCE-supported conference that seeks to formulate and promote the implementation of confidence-building measures to combat the causes and effects of terrorism nationwide began today at the Issyk-Kul Lake...

OSCE Office co-organizes third annual Preparatory Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Tajikistan

Publishing date: 7 August 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Human rights
DUSHANBE, 7 August 2009- A meeting co-organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan to support Tajik government and civil society representatives ahead of the OSCE's annual Human Dimension Implementation Meeting ended in Dushanbe today...