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OSCE Centre supports training course for Kyrgyz human rights defenders on monitoring places of detention

Publishing date: 3 August 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Human rights, Education
JALAL-ABAD, Kyrgyzstan, 3 August 2009- About 20 human rights activists are learning how they best can monitor places of detention in a two-day OSCE-supported training course that started today in Jalal-Abad province...

OSCE Centre organizes seminars on alternatives to pre-trial detention in Turkmenistan

Publishing date: 3 August 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
ASHGABAT, 3 August 2009- The final in a series of five seminars on international human rights standards and best practices in the OSCE area related to alternatives to detention at the pre-trial stage of criminal proceedings started today in Ashgabat...

OSCE Office in Tajikistan supports intensive human rights course for university students

Publishing date: 29 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Human rights
DUSHANBE, 29 July 2009- Sixteen students majoring in humanities at universities across Tajikistan completed an eight-day, OSCE Office-supported intensive course on the principles of human rights and international public law today...

Tajik media develop self-regulation mechanism with support of OSCE Office

Publishing date: 24 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development
DUSHANBE, 24 July 2009- Tajik media associations and representatives of Tajik media companies developed and presented the first draft of a complaint mechanism at an OSCE-supported workshop on media self-regulation that concluded in Dushanbe today...

OSCE minorities commissioner discusses amendments to Slovakia's language law

Publishing date: 22 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues, Tolerance and non-discrimination
THE HAGUE, 22 July 2009- The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Knut Vollebaek, received delegations from Slovakia (on 21 July) and Hungary (on 22 July) to discuss the amendments to the "Law on the State Language of the Slovak Republic"...

OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports improved conditions for detainees and personnel at Talas Province police detention centre

Publishing date: 20 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Human rights, Policing
TALAS, Kyrgyzstan, 20 July, 2009- The OSCE Centre, the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry and the Talas administration presented a newly constructed and equipped boiler room for the Talas Provincial Police Directorate's temporary detention centre today...

OSCE Senior Police Adviser encourages further police reform in Armenia

Publishing date: 17 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Policing
YEREVAN, 17 July 2009- The Senior Police Adviser to the OSCE Secretary General, Kevin Carty, discussed Armenia's police reform with authorities during a visit to Yerevan today...