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OSCE Chairman congratulates Martti Ahtisaari on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize

Publishing date: 10 October 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Democratization, Conflict prevention and resolution
HELSINKI, 10 October 2008- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, congratulated former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari for being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today...

OSCE sends experts to Georgia to assess human rights and minority situation in areas affected by conflict

Publishing date: 10 October 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues
WARSAW/THE HAGUE, 10 October 2008- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities will send an expert team to Georgia to assess the human rights and minority situation in the areas...

OSCE Mission to Skopje supports citizen-police initiative to raise ecology awareness among students

Publishing date: 10 October 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Environmental activities
SKOPJE, 10 October 2008- Some 70 students, teachers and parents from the technical high school in Kumanovo took part in an event today to clear rubbish from the school compound, previously used for waste disposal...

OSCE supports international scientific conference on power engineering held in southern Kyrgyzstan

Publishing date: 10 October 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Economic activities
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 10 October 2008- Challenges and solutions in the field of energy and power engineering are on the agenda of an international conference held by the OSCE field office and the Kyrgyz-Uzbek University in Osh today...

OSCE brings together experts from Central, Eastern Europe to discuss border crossings

Publishing date: 9 October 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Economic activities, Border management
MINSK, 9 October 2008- Evaluating the performance of border crossings in Central and Eastern Europe and best practices in the field were the focus of an OSCE-organized meeting that ended in Minsk today...

OSCE Office urges Tajikistan to decriminalize defamation and libel laws

Publishing date: 9 October 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Democratization, Media freedom and development, Rule of law
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan, 9 October 2008- The OSCE Office in Tajikistan co-organized a meeting starting today that called for the decriminalization and libel...

OSCE supports introduction of rule of law course to law curriculum at Ukrainian universities

Publishing date: 9 October 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Education
KYIV, 9 October, 2008- Ways to improve the legal education system in Ukraine will be discussed at a conference, co-organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, that opened in Kyiv today...