http://www.osce.org/features/ This feed contains the latest feature stories published on the OSCE website. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:06:58 +0100 © OSCE 1995–2007 http://www.osce.org/graphics/general/logo.png http://www.osce.org/features/ A series of intensive seminars for senior border officials from a total of 14 different OSCE participating States initiated the teaching activities of the OSCE Border Management Staff College, launched in May 2009 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. http://www.osce.org/item/42554.html Mon, 1 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +2000 http://www.osce.org/item/42554.html A group of Serbian officers-in-training from the Serbian Military Academy visited the Czech University of Defence in Brno, as part of the OSCE Mission to Serbia's efforts to support higher military education reform. http://www.osce.org/item/42472.html Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +2000 http://www.osce.org/item/42472.html To help children develop a positive image of the police as partners in ensuring a safe environment, the OSCE's community policing programme in Mingachevir, Azerbaijan, is being expanded to include police activities in schools. http://www.osce.org/item/42399.html Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +2000 http://www.osce.org/item/42399.html During the past decade, the OSCE Mission to Serbia's assistance to the Prosecutors' Association of Serbia has developed from providing help with institution and capacity building to full-fledged collaboration on judicial reform. http://www.osce.org/item/42245.html Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +2000 http://www.osce.org/item/42245.html The Osh Field Office of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek is supporting groups of mediators from all walks of life who step in to calm conflicting parties and diffuse tensions when incidents of inter-ethnic or inter-religious conflict occur. http://www.osce.org/item/42232.html Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +2000 http://www.osce.org/item/42232.html 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. http://www.osce.org/item/41996.html Wed, 9 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +2000 http://www.osce.org/item/41996.html 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. http://www.osce.org/item/41541.html Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +2000 http://www.osce.org/item/41541.html The OSCE Office on Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is helping practitioners across Eastern Europe learn to recognize signs of burgeoning intolerance and devise effective training courses on combating hate crimes. http://www.osce.org/item/41431.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +2000 http://www.osce.org/item/41431.html Assistance provided by the OSCE Mission to Serbia to the country's judiciary and police has helped to create an environment open to co-operation with other Western Balkan countries in the fight against organized crime. http://www.osce.org/item/41221.html Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +2000 http://www.osce.org/item/41221.html At its Police Training Centre, the OSCE Mission to Skopje is preparing newly-appointed Officers of Prevention to take up their posts in communities throughout the country, thereby contributing to police reform based on international standards. http://www.osce.org/item/41054.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +2000 http://www.osce.org/item/41054.html