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The OSCE Academy in Bishkek, a well-established regional centre for post-graduate education, capacity building and research, worked closely with the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek in the summer of 2017 to provide additional broad-ranging internship opportunities for its students...

Developing a draft Youth Action Plan for 2018 was the focus of a workshop that was hosted by the Directorate for Youth of the Montenegrin Ministry of Sports and supported by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro on 16-17 November 2017 in Petrovac.

A three-day conference on the rights of people with disabilities, organized by the civil society organization National Union of People with Disabilities with the support of the UN and the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, concluded in Tajikistan’s capital on 17 November 2017.

Some 30 young people from across South-Eastern Europe gathered together with experts on civic technology, e-governance and related fields in Tirana on 17 November 2017 to explore how new technologies and social media platforms can encourage young peoples’ political participation by creating avenues

The Russian translation of the OSCE Guidebook on Intelligence-Led Policing was published in Vienna on 17 November 2017...

A workshop on the local implementation of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, was organized by the OSCE and Inclusive Security in Kyiv on 15-16 November 2017, bringing together 20 experts from regional administrations, national police and civil society organizations from the Volyn, Odessa, Luhansk, Donetsk and Dnipro regions.

A team of experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) was in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 13 to 17 November 2017 for a consultation and planning visit as part of the ODIHR project “ Support to Elections in the Western Balkans ”. The ODIHR team met with senior