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Gender equality

The OSCE aims to provide equal opportunities for women and men, as well as to integrate gender equality into policies and practices, both within participating States and the Organization itself.

With local partners, the OSCE initiates and runs projects across the OSCE region to empower women, and build local capacities and expertise on gender issues. It co-operates with authorities in reviewing legislation and assists in building national mechanisms to ensure equality between women and men.

The Organization also promotes gender balance among OSCE staff at all levels, and aims to ensure a professional working environment where women and men are treated equally.

OSCE Institutions active in promoting gender equality:

Features

OSCE facilitates primary education for girls from vulnerable communities

Sejdi Berisha (right) receives books for his two daughters attending Sveti Sava primary school in Fushë Kosovë/Kosovo Polje, as part of the OSCE project to help Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian schoolgirls finish compulsory education, 11 November 2009. (OSCE/Petrit Qarkagjiu)

With the support of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian schoolgirls in two Kosovo municipalities are receiving schoolbooks and supplies to help them to complete their compulsory education.
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Empowering women economically promotes gender equality

Interested customers inspect products at the trade fair organized by women's resource centres in Goris, Syunik, Armenia, on 17 October 2009. (OSCE/Gayane Ter-Stepanyan)

The OSCE Office in Yerevan is supporting three women's resource centres in the southern Armenian province of Syunik, which are opening up new economic opportunities for women and helping to revise gender stereotypes in this poverty-stricken region.
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OSCE Kosovo Mission helps get women involved in local politics

Municipal gender officer Habibe Haxhimustafa (right) speaks at an OSCE-supported local roundtable on women's participation in public and political life, Rahovec/Orahovac municipality, 9 May 2008. (OSCE/Mustafa Skenderi)

The OSCE is helping local NGOs and government officials to counter gender stereotypes and discrimination, and find ways of increasing women's participation in the public and political life of Kosovo's rural municipalities.
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A workshop was organized by the OSCE Centre in Almaty to train repatriated women on leadership and business skills and to raise their awareness on human rights, Turgen, Kazakhstan. (OSCE/Gulnara Yessirgepova)

A workshop was organized by the OSCE Centre in Almaty to train repatriated women on leadership and business skills and to raise their awareness on human rights, Turgen, Kazakhstan. (OSCE/Gulnara Yessirgepova)