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OSCE Mission to Serbia supports consultations on the implementation of new media laws
Publishing date: 2 December 2014
As part of its support to the implementation of media reform, the OSCE Mission to Serbia, together with the Ministry of Culture and Information and the EU Delegation to Serbia, organized consultations between the relevant stakeholders and the authorities on 28 November in Arandjelovac...
OSCE trains legal professionals on preventing domestic violence
Publishing date: 1 December 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku and Azerbaijan’s Justice Academy organized a two-day train-the-trainers course on 1 and 2 December 2014, focusing on the legal norms of preventing domestic violence...
OSCE-supported NGO Network “Open Day: Working together” held in Struga
Publishing date: 1 December 2014
With the support of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, the “Open Day: Working together” was held in Struga on 1 December 2014 to introduce regional activities of a locally-based NGO Network...
Strengthening capacities of Montenegro’s Parliamentary Committee for Gender Equality in focus at OSCE-supported sessions
Publishing date: 1 December 2014
With the goal of strengthening the capacities of the Parliamentary Committee for Gender Equality and their oversight role, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro supported two thematic sessions of the Committee that took place on 21 and 24 November 2014 in Podgorica...
OSCE-supported Monitoring report on good governance in local self-government presented in Podgorica
Publishing date: 1 December 2014
The OSCE Mission supported the NGO centre for development of non–governmental organisations (CRNVO) in the development of 2013 the monitoring report on good governance in local self-government, involving 21 municipalities in Montenegro, which was presented on 27 November 2014 in Podgorica.
OSCE helps Ukrainian anti-trafficking NGOs refine ideas for social businesses
Publishing date: 28 November 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Representatives of four Ukrainian civil society organisations had a chance to refine their social business ideas, intended to support their anti-trafficking activities, at a three-day intensive training workshop in Kyiv that ended on Thursday, 27 November 2014. The event organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine in co-operation with the country’s Ministry of Social Policy gathered civil society activists from Kyiv, Lviv, Vinnytsya and Zhytomyr regions...
Steps needed to improve Roma and Sinti participation in decision-making processes at the local level, say participants at OSCE/ODIHR expert meeting
Publishing date: 28 November 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Roma and Sinti
The effective political participation of Roma and Sinti, including of women and youth from these communities, was the focus of an expert meeting organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw on 28 November 2014.