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OSCE Chairman criticizes Kyrgyzstan for extraditions, calls on Russian authorities not to deport refugees to Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 10 August 2006
BRUSSELS, 10 August 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, today criticized Kyrgyzstan for extraditing four refugees and one asylum-seeker, all Uzbek citizens, to Uzbekistan...
OSCE's human rights office facilitates discussion on international trends and local perspectives in criminal justice in Central Asia
Publishing date: 7 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Education, Rule of law
ALMATY, 7 August 2006- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today welcomed 25 criminal justice practitioners from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to a week-long Summer School...
OSCE supports public monitoring of pre-trial detention centres in Armenia
Publishing date: 7 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Rule of law
YEREVAN, 7 August 2006- Human rights NGOs today began monitoring the conditions in pre-trial detention centres as part of a project supported by the OSCE Office in Yerevan and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights...
OSCE Chairman deeply concerned at Belarusian court verdict against would-be election monitors
Publishing date: 4 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Elections, Rule of law
BRUSSELS, 4 August 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, today voiced deep concern at guilty verdicts and subsequent prison sentences handed to four Belarusians...
OSCE Mission in Kosovo helps raise knowledge on constitutional issues
Publishing date: 21 July 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
SKOPJE, 21 July 2006- Constitutional issues are the focus of a two-day roundtable that began yesterday in Skopje. The meeting, organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, brings together experts and members of the Assembly of Kosovo...
OSCE Centre in Dushanbe organizes summer school on international law and human rights
Publishing date: 17 July 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Human rights, Education, Rule of law
VARZOB, Tajikistan, 17 July 2006- University students are learning about human rights and mechanisms to protect those rights during a summer school co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe and Tajikistan's Bureau on Human Rights and the Rule of Law...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office voices deep concern at "harsh" jail sentence imposed on Belarusian opposition leader
Publishing date: 14 July 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Elections, Rule of law
BRUSSELS, 14 July 2006- OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, has expressed his deep concern following the announcement yesterday of guilty verdicts and a jail sentence on Dr. Alexander Kozulin, an opposition candidate...