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OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities discusses education and language policy with Georgian officials, meets displaced persons
Publishing date: 22 April 2015
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Astrid Thors visited Georgia from 13 to 17 April 2015, where she discussed a wide range of issues, including language policy, education reform and minority representation, and met people displaced from Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The internally
OSCE supports seminar on safety of Kyzylorda water facilities
Publishing date: 22 April 2015
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
A two-day seminar on the safety and stability of the Kyzylorda water facilities was held on 21-22 April 2015 in Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan...
Governments must do more to address anti-Semitic hate crime, say participants at OSCE/ODIHR workshop
Publishing date: 20 April 2015
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
More than 30 representatives of civil society, Jewish communities and international organizations from across the OSCE region discussed prevention efforts and responses to anti-Semitic hate crime at a workshop organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 20 April 2015 in Vienna.
OSCE/ODIHR hosts meeting on legal personality of religious or belief communities with civil society and state authorities from Central Asia
Publishing date: 20 April 2015
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
The legal personality of religious or belief communities in the Central Asia region was the focus of an event organized jointly by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Regional Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights for Central Asia, on 20 April 2015 in Bishkek.
OSCE Mission to Skopje organizes in-depth control training for border police officers
Publishing date: 20 April 2015
The OSCE Mission to Skopje in co-operation with the Hungarian Embassy in Skopje and Hungarian national police will train 13 Border Police Officers on in-depth control and integrated border management in Budapest from 20 to 25 April 2015...
Mijatović welcomes dropped charges against journalist in Slovenia
Publishing date: 17 April 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 17 April 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today welcomed the recent decision to drop all charges against Slovenian journalist Anuška Delić...
OSCE Yerevan Office donates equipment to State Investigative Committee to help improve criminal justice in Armenia
Publishing date: 16 April 2015
The OSCE Office in Yerevan on 15 April 2015 donated equipment including 15 computers and three printer-scanner machines to the newly-established State Investigative Committee with the aim of enhancing the capacities and efficiency of this institution and its investigators, and to promote the