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OSCE Chairman welcomes appointment of new head of Organization's human rights body

Ambassador Janez Lenarcic, in Vienna 24 February 2005. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

HELSINKI, 15 May 2008 - The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, welcomed today the decision by the OSCE Ministerial Council to appoint Janez Lenarcic of Slovenia as the head of the Organization's human rights body...

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Mission helps improve participatory governance in Kosovo

Inhabitants of Besi village, part of Prishtine/Pristina municipality, express their concerns to local authorities at a meeting facilitated by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo. (OSCE/Hasan Sopa)

With a series of workshops and guidebooks, the OSCE Mission in Kosovo is helping to address the main challenges municipal officials face, such as involving the public in decision-making.

Tackling corruption by changing attitudes in southern Serbia

Pupils from the elementary school in the village of Bosnjace view some of the best entries in a Mission to Serbia-supported anti-corruption art competition, Lebane, 26 March 2008. (OSCE/Milan Obradovic)

A children's art competition supported by the OSCE Mission to Serbia is helping to tackle corruption by raising awareness of the problem among young people.

OSCE Mission to Skopje supports co-ordination mechanism to help trafficking victims

Jasna Dobricik (right), National Rule of Law Officer with the OSCE Mission to Skopje, examines the anti-trafficking training curriculum with one of the trainers, 5 April 2008. (OSCE/Aleksandar Lazovski)

The adoption of new OSCE-supported guidelines on the proper treatment of trafficked persons will help the Government in Skopje to tackle the problem of identifying and assisting trafficking victims.

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The winning entry of the 2008 OSCE photo contest - fishermen on the river Bol'shaya, near the town Oktiabrsky on the Kamchatka peninsula, August 2007. (Andrey Shapran)

The winning entry of the 2008 OSCE photo contest - fishermen on the river Bol'shaya, near the town Oktiabrsky on the Kamchatka peninsula, August 2007. (Andrey Shapran)

2008 OSCE photo contest "Waterways of life"