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OSCE Mission workshop highlights efforts to prevent illegal occupation of properties in Kosovo

Publishing date: 24 October 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
The last in a series of six OSCE workshops on preventing the illegal re-occupation of apartments, houses and land belonging to displaced persons, was held on 24 October 2014 in Gjakovë/Đakovica for representatives of the Kosovo Property Agency (KPA), Kosovo Police, judges and prosecutors...

On International Day against the Death Penalty, OSCE/ODIHR Director calls on OSCE participating States to keep abolishment under consideration

Publishing date: 10 October 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
WARSAW, 10 October 2014 – On the occasion of the International Day against the Death Penalty, Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), called on those OSCE countries that continue to apply the death penalty or maintain it in law to continue to consider the complete abolishment of capital punishment...

OSCE supports Eighth International Documentary Film Festival on Human Rights in Kyrgyzstan

Publishing date: 8 October 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Human rights
BISHKEK, 8 October 2014 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek is supporting local human rights organization Bir Duino Kyrgyzstan in hosting the four-day Eighth International Documentary Film Festival on Human Rights, which launched on Tuesday in Bishkek...

Human rights, humanitarian issues the focus of closing session at OSCE PA Autumn Meeting

Publishing date: 5 October 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Human rights
GENEVA, 5 October 2014 – Human rights and humanitarian issues were the focus of presentations and parliamentary debate on the final day of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 2014 Autumn Meeting in Geneva...

OSCE Centre in Bishkek supported Kyrgyz delegation’s participation at largest annual human rights and democracy conference in Warsaw

Publishing date: 25 September 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
The OSCE Centre in Bishkek supported the participation of the Kyrgyz delegation at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting 2014, in Warsaw, Poland, on 23- 24 September 2014...

OSCE/ODIHR launches publication on protecting human rights in the return of trafficked persons

Publishing date: 25 September 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
To assist OSCE participating States in ensuring a human rights based approach in the return of victims of human trafficking, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) released a publication containing guidance in this area on 25 September 2014 at a side event during the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw.

OSCE/ODIHR releases annual Background Paper on Death Penalty in OSCE Area

Publishing date: 24 September 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented its 2014 Background Paper on the Death Penalty in the OSCE Area at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 24 September 2014.