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OSCE Project Co-ordinator supports seminar to prevent trafficking of labour migrants' children
Publishing date: 13 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
KYIV, 13 October 2010- An OSCE-supported seminar that started today looks at how social workers can help protect labour migrants' children from human trafficking...
OSCE media freedom representative: Ukraine should take swift and resolute measures to entrench its exemplary record in media pluralism
Publishing date: 13 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development, Media pluralism, Rule of law
KYIV, 13 October 2010- Ukraine has achieved a great level of media freedom but it must take urgent steps to safeguard it, Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, said today...
Protecting the rights of every child is key to preventing trafficking, OSCE Special Representative says at Alliance meeting
Publishing date: 7 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
WARSAW, 7 October 2010- Child protection must be a priority for efforts to prevent child trafficking to be effective, the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, said today...
OSCE Centre promotes best practices in basic police training
Publishing date: 5 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
ASHGABAT, 5 October 2010- About twenty officials from the Interior Ministry and Police Academy of Turkmenistan discussed basic police training in a roundtable meeting which concluded in Ashgabat today...
OSCE organizes workshop on democratic policing in South-Eastern Europe with Regional Cooperation Council support
Publishing date: 30 September 2010
SARAJEVO, 30 September 2010- A regional workshop on democratic policing organized by the OSCE Strategic Police Matters Unit with the support of the Regional Cooperation Council started in Sarajevo today...
OSCE well placed to counter human trafficking as integral part of organised crime, transnational threat, says Special Representative
Publishing date: 29 September 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
MOSCOW, 29 September 2010- The OSCE, as a unique organization, is well placed to counter the human trafficking challenge, said Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, OSCE Special Representative for Combating Human Trafficking, at a workshop in Moscow today...
OSCE trains Afghan border police on detecting forged documents
Publishing date: 27 September 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
DUSHANBE, 27 September 2010- A two-week training course for 20 Afghan border police officials to increase operational awareness to detect forged documents and use Interpol databases started today at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe...