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Finland takes over OSCE Chairmanship, will focus on strengthening Organization

Publishing date: 1 January 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
HELSINKI, 1 January 2008- Finland took over the Chairmanship of the OSCE today and described the Organization as a unique forum of dialogue between 56 participating States whose strength lies in the unanimity required for decision-making.

OSCE organizes training course for Azerbaijan's Ombudsman

Publishing date: 21 December 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Human rights
BAKU, 21 December 2007- Building the capacity of the office of the Ombudsman of the Azerbaijan Republic is the aim of a training course that began in Baku today...

OSCE Mission to Skopje promotes inter-ethnic dialogue through mountaineering

Publishing date: 14 December 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: National minority issues, Tolerance and non-discrimination
SKOPJE, 14 December 2007- A multiethnic group of young mountaineers who completed a year-long OSCE Mission-supported course received their licences as professional mountain guides today at a ceremony in Skopje...

OSCE human rights body raises concern of attacks and restrictions on human rights defenders

Publishing date: 10 December 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
VIENNA, 10 December 2007- A report by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on patterns of human rights violations against those defending such rights was launched in Vienna today on International Human Rights Day...

Press freedom commitments not met during Russian electoral campaign, says OSCE media freedom watchdog

Publishing date: 4 December 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 4 December 2007- OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklos Haraszti said today that harassment of media outlets, legislative limitations, and arbitrary application of rules prevented equal media access during the Duma elections...

Spain's King and Austrian President inaugurate new OSCE building

Publishing date: 21 November 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Secretariat
VIENNA, 21 November 2007- King Juan Carlos I of Spain and Austrian President Heinz Fischer inaugurated the new headquarters for the OSCE Secretariat and the OSCE's Representative on Freedom of the Media in Vienna today.

ODIHR unable to observe Russian Duma elections

Publishing date: 16 November 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WARSAW, 16 November 2007- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has informed the Russian authorities that the Office will be unable to act upon their invitation to observe the 2 December elections to the Russian State Duma...