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OSCE Center in Bishkek supports environment and emergency risk reduction training for Central Asia

Publishing date: 24 September 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Disaster risk reduction, Environmental activities
BISHKEK, 24 September 2014 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek is hosting a three-day training course on ”Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation” for representatives from the national agencies of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and OSCE field operations in Central Asia in Bishkek...

Don’t overlook humanitarian impact of Ukraine crisis, urges OSCE PA’s Kulkuloglu

Publishing date: 24 September 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
COPENHAGEN, 23 September 2014 – As the international community supports a diplomatic solution in Ukraine, the humanitarian impact of the crisis must not be overlooked, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Mehmet Sevki Kulkuloglu told a gathering of international human rights experts in Warsaw...

Proposed media ownership requirements could further damage media pluralism in Russia, OSCE Representative says

Publishing date: 24 September 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media pluralism
WARSAW, 24 September 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today called on the Russian authorities to carefully address proposed changes to legislation on media ownership requirements...

OSCE Mission to Skopje promotes campaign against hate speech among high school students

Publishing date: 24 September 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Youth, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
Students from 21 high schools in Skopje learn about privacy, personal data protection, and how to combat online hate speech through an OSCE supported project, from September to December 2014...

OSCE/ODIHR releases annual Background Paper on Death Penalty in OSCE Area

Publishing date: 24 September 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented its 2014 Background Paper on the Death Penalty in the OSCE Area at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 24 September 2014.

OSCE grants awarded to two projects addressing disaster risk reduction in Azerbaijan

Publishing date: 24 September 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Disaster risk reduction, Environmental activities
BAKU, 24 September 2014- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku has awarded two civil society organizations in Azerbaijan, working in the field of disaster risk reduction, with grants under the Civic Action for Environment and Security (CASE) Programme...

Better protection of human rights defenders urgently needed, say participants at OSCE/ODIHR meeting

Publishing date: 23 September 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
The urgent need for enhanced protection of human rights defenders was the focus of a side event organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human (ODIHR) on 23 September 2014, during the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw.