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OSCE, UN Train Kazakh Officials on Nontraditional Rights
December 16, 2015
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights recently offered training for authorities and civil society activists in Kazakhstan on how to respect and implement the UN's economic, social, and cultural human-rights agenda.
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Security Organization Talks Political-Party Financing in Moldova
December 16, 2015
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") recently held a roundtable meeting in Moldova on "international best practices" national officials should follow in public financing of political parties.
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OSCE Calls for Closure of Guantanamo Bay Facility
December 16, 2015
A report from the human-rights office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") calls for the US to close its detention facility for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, grant current detainees a trial, provide an opportunity for redress to detainees who claim to have suffered harm, and investigate and prosecute past human-rights violations.
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World Bank Pledges Support to Chinese Social Protection
December 16, 2015
World Bank Country Director for China Bert Hofman spotlights the impact of social protection measures in China as the "key" to the alleviation of poverty among the Chinese people, including only a brief mention of the massive economic growth the country has experienced in recent years as a "factor."
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OSCE Expresses Concern over UK Surveillance Bill
December 15, 2015
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic has expressed alarm over an Investigatory Powers Bill recently introduced in the British Parliament that she says would increase surveillance authority of law enforcement and pose a potential threat to the confidentiality of journalists' sources.
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