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OSCE Mission to Skopje donates equipment for Roma Decade project
Publishing date: 29 December 2008
SKOPJE, 29 December 2008- The OSCE Mission to Skopje donated office equipment today to the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy for its planned unit to implement the National Strategy for Roma...
OSCE launches channel on YouTube
Publishing date: 27 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Economic activities, Border management, Environmental activities, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Education, Elections, Countering terrorism, Gender equality, Media freedom and development, National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector, Roma and Sinti, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
VIENNA, 27 November 2008- The OSCE today launched its own channel on the popular video-sharing website YouTube...
OSCE Mission head welcomes appointments of Citizens' Protector deputies in Serbia
Publishing date: 7 October 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
BELGRADE, 7 October 2008- The Head of the OSCE Mission, Ambassador Hans Ola Urstad, welcomed today the National Assembly's appointment of four Citizen Protectors' deputies...
Major gaps still divide Roma from mainstream populations across Europe, says OSCE report
Publishing date: 2 October 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Roma and Sinti
WARSAW, 2 October 2008- Roma and Sinti populations continue to face discrimination and remain divided from mainstream society across Europe, says an OSCE report launched on the margins of the Organization's annual human rights conference in Warsaw...
OSCE Mission to Serbia supports school enrollment as part of the Gazela settlement relocation plan
Publishing date: 1 October 2008
BELGRADE, 1 October 2008- Sixty five ethnic Roma pupils from the Gazela settlement, recently enrolled for primary school, received backpacks, textbooks, and winter clothes at an event organized by the OSCE Mission and Belgrade city authorities today...
OSCE Mission supports relocation of Gazela Roma settlement
Publishing date: 1 September 2008
BELGRADE, 1 September 2008- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia said today he supported the efforts of the authorities of the City of Belgrade to identify alternative accommodation for families of the Roma settlement under the Gazela bridge...
OSCE Mission to Serbia supports Roma pre-school education
Publishing date: 31 July 2008
BELGRADE, 31 July 2008- Eighty-one Roma children from Belgrade's Gazela settlement graduated today from a four-month pre-school course supported by the OSCE Mission...