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Transdniestrian settlement mediators and observers stress need to make progress
Publishing date: 7 November 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
CHISINAU, 7 November 2012 – An OSCE-organized working visit to the region of the mediators and observers in the 5+2 talks on Transdniestrian settlement concluded in Chisinau today...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes decision to allow new media reporting in Russian commercial courts
Publishing date: 7 November 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws
BAKU, 7 November 2012- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today welcomed the decision of the Supreme Commercial Court in Russia to make commercial courts in Russia more transparent and open to the media...
Good practices, challenges to freedom of assembly and association highlighted at civil society forum
Publishing date: 7 November 2012
Content type: News
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
Promoting the freedom of assembly and association, as well as the challenges faced in exercising this fundamental right, were the focus of a forum for civil society representatives organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Irish OSCE Chairmanship on 7 November 2012...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities launches guidelines on integration of diverse societies
Publishing date: 7 November 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: National minority issues
LJUBLJANA, 7 November 2012 – The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek presented guidelines on the integration of diverse societies at an event today in Ljubljana...
OSCE Office facilitates visit of Afghan de-mining experts to Tajikistan
Publishing date: 7 November 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management
DUSHANBE, 7 November 2012 – An OSCE-facilitated visit of a group of humanitarian de-mining experts from Afghanistan to share their experience with Tajik counterparts, started in Dushanbe today...
OSCE Mission to Skopje holds regional conference on preventing corruption
Publishing date: 6 November 2012
SKOPJE, 6 November 2012 – Exchanging best practices among anti-corruption agencies from South Eastern and Eastern Europe on the introduction of systems of integrity in public institutions is the aim of an OSCE-supported regional conference that started in Ohrid today...
OSCE media freedom representative, International Telecommunications Union SG discuss civil society participation in upcoming conference
Publishing date: 6 November 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
BAKU, 6 November 2012 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović met today the Secretary General of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Hamadoun I. Touré, ahead of the 2012 UN Internet Governance Forum in Baku...