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OSCE helps establish first support centre for domestic violence victims in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 24 April 2012
A support and assistance centre for victims of domestic violence opened in Ashgabat in April 2012 with support from the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat...
OSCE Centre in Ashgabat presents commentary on Turkmenistan’s criminal procedure code
Publishing date: 23 April 2012
ASHGABAT, 23 April 2012 – The OSCE Centre in Ashgabat presented an article-by-article commentary on the Criminal Procedure Code of Turkmenistan in Ashgabat today...
Statement of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly on rise of extremism and attack on Efthymiou
Publishing date: 23 April 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
COPENHAGEN, 23 April 2012 – Citizens and leaders should denounce the rise in extremist political parties in the wake of recent physical attacks in Athens, leaders of the 56-country Organization for Security and Co-operation Parliamentary Assembly said today...
Head of OSCE Centre meets authorities, opens anti-human trafficking event in western Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 23 April 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
AKTAU, Kazakhstan, 23 April 2012- The Head of the OSCE Centre in Astana Ambassador Natalia Zarudna, in Aktau on Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea coast today, met with local authorities and civil society representatives and opened a workshop on preventing human trafficking among vulnerable groups in Kazakhstan’s regions...
Greater efforts needed to tackle corruption, say participants at OSCE Dublin meeting
Publishing date: 23 April 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
DUBLIN, 23 April 2012 – Participants at an OSCE meeting in Dublin today called on governments in the 56 OSCE countries to strengthen their efforts to combat corruption and ensure greater transparency in their states...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator assists police in combating gender-based violence in Ukraine
Publishing date: 23 April 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Gender equality, Policing
LVIV, Ukraine, 23 April 2012 – Law enforcement efforts in combating gender-based violence is the topic of a roundtable discussion jointly organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) and the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior that started today in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv...
OSCE Centre organizes national seminar on implementation of universal anti-terrorism instruments
Publishing date: 23 April 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Countering terrorism