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OSCE Mission to Croatia and Education Ministry organize children's art contest to promote co-existence and friendship

Publishing date: 6 September 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Education, Tolerance and non-discrimination
VUKOVAR, 6 September 2006- A children's literary and art competition aiming to promote co-existence and friendship in the Danube Region opened today in Vukovar. The contest for children from multicultural schools is organized by the OSCE Mission...

OSCE Office opens training centre to help reduce unemployment in Armenia

Publishing date: 6 September 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
YEREVAN, 6 September 2006- Reducing unemployment in Armenia's Ararat province is the aim of a training Centre that opened in the village of Zorak today. Supported by the OSCE Office in Yerevan and...

OSCE media freedom representative asks Azerbaijan's president to help stop new wave of prosecution of journalists, urges legal reform

Publishing date: 4 September 2006
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, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 4 September 2006- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, has expressed concern over recent cases of prosecution of journalists in Azerbaijan and proposed a legal reform as a way out of the situation. In a letter...

OSCE Office concerned about violations of the presumption of innocence in criminal proceedings in Azerbaijan

Publishing date: 4 September 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Rule of law
BAKU, 4 September 2006- A report on Azerbaijan's adherence to the principle of presumption of innocence suggests that journalists, police officers, prosecutors and judges often treat suspicion of guilt and proof of criminal behaviour as...

OSCE Mission launches capacity-building training for high-ranking Georgian Border Police

Publishing date: 4 September 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management, Education
TBILISI, 4 September 2006- An OSCE training programme to help make Georgia's border management more effective by improving the operational planning and rapid reaction capacity of the Georgian Border Police began today...

OSCE media freedom representative concerned over jailing of Turkmenistan journalists

Publishing date: 28 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development, Media pluralism, Rule of law, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 28 August 2006- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, today criticised the sentencing of journalists in Turkmenistan and condemned the lack of transparency in the handling of the cases.

OSCE Mission to Skopje supports course to improve access to information

Publishing date: 28 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Education, Media freedom and development
SKOPJE, 28 August 2006- A training course that aims to make it easier for journalists and others to gain access to public information started today with the support of the OSCE Mission to Skopje....