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OSCE High-Level Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Conference calls for sharing best practices, renewed focus on rights
ASTANA, 29 June 2010 - Sharing positive experiences and best practices in promoting tolerance and non-discrimination to effectively face threats to stability in the OSCE area is the focus of the High-Level OSCE Conference that started in Astana today...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports establishment of national mechanism for non-discrimination
SKOPJE, 21 June 2010 - A high-level OSCE-supported conference which started in Skopje today will discuss the establishment of an effective national mechanism for protection from discrimination...
High-level OSCE conference in Astana on tolerance and non-discrimination to take place in the end of June
ASTANA, 8 June 2010 - Senior government officials, politicians and public figures from the 56 OSCE participating States will meet in Kazakhstan's capital Astana on 29 and 30 June to discuss tolerance and non-discrimination in the OSCE region...
OSCE Annual Police Experts Meeting discusses enhancing policing activities, calls for better co-ordination
VIENNA, 21 May 2010 - Policing experts from the OSCE region discussed enhancing police-related activities and co-operating with international organizations to address transnational threats at the Annual Police Experts Meeting which ends in Vienna today...
OSCE book on police and Roma and Sinti to be launched on margins of annual police experts meeting
VIENNA, 19 May 2010 - A book on good practices in relations between police and Roma and Sinti communities, created by the OSCE Strategic Police Matters Unit and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) will be launched on Friday.
High-level OSCE conference in Astana to focus on tolerance and non-discrimination
ASTANA, 17 May 2010 - Senior government officials, politicians and public figures from the 56 OSCE participating States will meet in Kazakhstan's capital Astana on 29 and 30 June to discuss tolerance and non-discrimination in the OSCE region...
OSCE Mission, Roma Leadership Foundation mark fifth anniversary of Montenegrin Roma Scholarship Foundation, accession to Decade of Roma Inclusion
PODGORICA, 13 May 2010 - The OSCE Mission and the Roma Leadership Foundation will hold a ceremony on the fifth anniversary of the Roma Scholarship Foundation and Montenegro's accession to the International Decade of Roma Inclusion tomorrow...
OSCE Rights Office, Minorities Commissioner call for greater efforts to improve the situation of Roma
WARSAW/THE HAGUE, 8 April 2010 - The Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Ambassador Janez Lenarcic, and Ambassador Knut Vollebaek, the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, called today on governments...
OSCE Mission to Serbia head marks International Roma Day with call for Roma inclusion
BELGRADE, 8 April 2010 - The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Dimitrios Kypreos, today, on the occasion of International Roma Day, expressed hopes for the further advancement of the Roma in Serbian society, and called for...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports confidence building between police and Roma population
SKOPJE, 18 March 2010 - The OSCE-supported project to improve relations between Roma community and the police was launched today in Vinica municipality in the east of the country.