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OSCE trains prosecutors on conflict resolution and trial techniques in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 26 February 2015
A two-day training seminar on conflict resolution and basic trial techniques for some 30 middle-level staff of Kazakhstan’s Prosecutor General’s Office began on 26 February 2015 in Astana...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports seminar on presumption of innocence
Publishing date: 25 February 2015
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro supported a seminar in Podgorica on 23 February 2015 on the right to the presumption of innocence as articulated by the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), with a particular focus on the role of the media and public officials...
OSCE Secretary General addresses White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism
Publishing date: 20 February 2015
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General, OSCE Secretariat
The OSCE’s comprehensive approach to security, which embraces human rights and democracy, economics and environment as well as politico-military security, offers a powerful antidote to violent extremism, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier told high-level officials from around the world at the Ministerial Meeting of the White House Countering Violent Extremism Summit in Washington, DC, on 19 February 2015...
OSCE report calls for enhanced institutional response to illegal re-occupation of properties in Kosovo
Publishing date: 19 February 2015
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 19 February 2015 – Cases of illegal re-occupation of properties call for a determined response by Kosovo institutions to guarantee the full protection of the property rights of all communities in Kosovo, concludes an OSCE Mission report launched today...
Turkmenistan officials discuss legal reform during OSCE-supported visit to the Netherlands
Publishing date: 13 February 2015
THE HAGUE, 13 February 2015 – Four senior representatives of law-making and law-enforcement bodies from Turkmenistan today concluded a five-day OSCE-supported visit to The Hague that focused on best practices in criminal justice reform. Representatives of the Mejlis (Parliament), Supreme Court, Justice Ministry and the General Prosecutor’s Office got a comprehensive overview of the legal reform process and its implementation stages...
OSCE co-organizes seminar for defence lawyers on criminal justice procedures in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 2 February 2015
Some 40 defence lawyers participated in a seminar on rules and standards of evidence in accordance with new Criminal Procedure Code co-organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana in co-operation with the Almaty Bar Association on 31 January 2015 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports discussion on national strategy for developing the penitentiary system
Publishing date: 21 January 2015
BISHKEK, 21 January 2015- The OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the Kyrgyz State Penitentiary Service today opened a roundtable discussion to evaluate progress on implementing the National Strategy on the Development of the Penitentiary System “UMUT 2”...