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Discrimination and negative discourse against Roma and Sinti must stop, say participants at OSCE human rights conference

Publishing date: 6 October 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Roma and Sinti
Governments in OSCE participating States urgently need to tackle persistent discrimination and negative public and political discourse targeting Roma and Sinti. They are unfortunately frequent targets of prejudiced portrayals by politicians and public officials, said participants at the OSCE's annual human rights conference in Warsaw on 5 October...

OSCE Mission to Skopje supports national efforts to assist street children

Publishing date: 6 October 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Human rights, Youth
The OSCE Mission to Skopje is holding a series of one-day regional workshops to promote co-operation between the Interior Ministry and the Labour and Social Policy Ministry in dealing with and assisting street children...

Tackling cybercrime focus of OSCE conference in Baku

Publishing date: 6 October 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Countering terrorism, Policing
BAKU, 6 October 2011 – A two-day OSCE-supported conference on tackling cybercrime opened in Baku today...

OSCE PA human rights chair concerned over anti-Roma violence in Bulgaria

Publishing date: 5 October 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 5 October 2011 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly human rights committee chair Matteo Mecacci (Italy) today called for calm and for the respect of the rights of minorities after violent protests targeting the Roma population swept across Bulgaria in recent weeks...

Crimes against journalists must not go unpunished, says OSCE media freedom representative on fifth anniversary of Politkovskaya murder

Publishing date: 5 October 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
STRASBOURG, France, 5 October 2011 – Commemorating the fifth anniversary of the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today presented her latest assessment of threats and responses to attacks against journalists in the OSCE region.

Local judges and prosecutors visit ICTY as part of War Crimes Justice Project training initiative for Kosovo judiciary

Publishing date: 5 October 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Rule of law
PRISHTINЁ/PRIŠTINA, 5 October 2011 – Eleven local judges and prosecutors from Kosovo today started a two-day study visit to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)...

OSCE Office holds training course on anti-corruption strategies in higher education

Publishing date: 5 October 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Education, Rule of law
YEREVAN, 5 October 2011 –– An OSCE-supported three-day workshop on the implementation of anti-corruption strategies and action plans at universities started today in Yerevan...