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OSCE meeting tries to resolve NGO registration issues in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 12 August 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Democratization
BAKU, 12 August 2003- The problems facing local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in registering with state authorities is the focus of a meeting which opened today in the Azeri capital, Baku. Through this meeting, which is the first in a...
OSCE Mission hails Bosnia and Herzegovina's new common core curriculum
Publishing date: 8 August 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization
SARAJEVO, 8 August 2003- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina warmly welcomed today's adoption of an agreement on a country wide common core curriculum, calling it a further step towards the reform of the country's education system. The...
OSCE and Kyrgyzstan sign agreement on implementing first major police assistance programme in Central Asia
Publishing date: 7 August 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
BISHKEK, 7 August 2003- The Kyrgyz Government has signed a key agreement today with the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, launching a comprehensive OSCE police assistance programme aimed at establishing community policing, improving the quality of criminal...
OSCE Kosovo Mission builds a new health centre in Gjilan/Gnjilane
Publishing date: 6 August 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
PRISTINA, 6 August 2003- Construction of a primary health care centre in Gjilan/Gnjilane municipality serving the Serbian and Albanian communities of Gornji Livoc/Livoq i Eperm has been completed with the funding provided by the OSCE Mission in...
OSCE brings young people together across Balkan borders
Publishing date: 1 August 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo, OSCE Mission to Skopje
PEJE/PEC, 1 August 2003- An OSCE-sponsored youth project will bring together young people from Kosovo and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia for a nine-day summer camp aimed at fostering reconciliation. Thirty young activists of...
OSCE publishes study on media in multilingual societies
Publishing date: 31 July 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws
VIENNA, 31 July 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, today presented to the OSCE participating States a booklet entitled Media in Multilingual Societies, a compilation of five country reports. The publication...
OSCE event discusses role of NGOs in reforming Tajik prison system
Publishing date: 30 July 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
DUSHANBE, 30 July 2003- The important role NGOs could play in the development of prison reform in Tajikistan was the focus of an OSCE roundtable held today in the capital, Dushanbe. Main objective of the event was to raise the awareness of