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OSCE meeting addresses challenges and good practices on freedoms of peaceful assembly and association
VIENNA, 8 November – Governments should welcome new technologies as an important means to facilitate, protect and promote the fundamental rights to peaceful assembly and association, civil society participants said at the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting, which opened today in Vienna...
US elections highly competitive and professionally administered, steps needed to address specific concerns
WASHINGTON, 7 November 2012 – The general elections in the United States took place in a highly competitive and pluralistic environment, and were administered in a professional manner, but steps should be taken to address specific concerns, the observation mission deployed by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) concluded in a statement released today...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities launches guidelines on integration of diverse societies
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...
Co-Chairs of Geneva International Discussions address OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna
VIENNA, 1 November 2012 – The Geneva International Discussions are the only process to resolve the consequences of the 2008 conflict in Georgia with participation of all stakeholders, said Pádraig Murphy, the OSCE Chairmanship’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus, in his address today to the representatives of OSCE participating States in Vienna...
OSCE, UNDP complete border management awareness training courses for Tajik, Afghan officers
DUSHANBE, 1 November 2012 – The graduation ceremony for a ten-day intensive training course on border management awareness co-organized by the OSCE and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) took place at the OSCE Border Management Staff College today...
Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia addresses OSCE Permanent Council
The Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia, Ashot Hovakimian, addressed representatives of the 56 OSCE participating States at a Permanent Council meeting in Vienna on 1 November 2012...
Media reform in Kazakhstan must continue, OSCE media freedom representative says
ASTANA, 1 November 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today concluded her official visit to Kazakhstan, where she met with high-ranking government officials, civil society and journalists, and stressed the need to safeguard safety of journalists and continue media reform efforts... ()
Economic co-operation to support democratic transition in Mediterranean focus of OSCE Rome conference
ROME, 30 October 2012 – Supporting democratic transition and political reforms through economic co-operation in the Southern Mediterranean region is the topic of a two-day OSCE conference that opened today in Rome...