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ODIHR supports conference on increasing women’s participation in Polish politics

Publishing date: 17 April 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Gender equality
Strategies to raise women’s participation in Polish political life were the focus of a conference organized in Warsaw on 17 April 2012 by the Polish Institute of Public Affairs, and supported by ODIHR and the British Embassy...

OSCE Office in Baku supports legal centre for entrepreneurs

Publishing date: 16 April 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Economic activities
MINGACHEVIR, Azerbaijan, 17 April 2012 – A legal advice centre for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) supported by the OSCE Office in Baku opened today in Mingachevir, the fourth biggest city in Azerbaijan...

Open and secure borders in Central Asia essential for ensuring stability, combating transnational threats, say participants at OSCE-supported meeting

Publishing date: 16 April 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
What we do: Border management
VIENNA, 16 April 2012 – Participants of a ministerial-level, OSCE-supported meeting of the Central Asia Border Security Initiative (CABSI) that started in Vienna today, stressed the need to join efforts to counter transnational threats while ensuring open and secure borders in the region...

OSCE Office trains Azerbaijani police on managing public gatherings

Publishing date: 16 April 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Policing
BAKU, 16 April 2012 – Today the OSCE Office in Baku starts a two-week training course for Azerbaijani police and internal troops on public assembly management...

OSCE Chairperson welcomes release of Belarusian opposition leader, calls on President to free others

Publishing date: 15 April 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
DUBLIN, 15 April 2012 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore, today said he was relieved that Belarusian opposition leader Andrei Sannikov has been released from custody under a presidential amnesty and called on President Aleksandr Lukashenko to free all remaining jailed opponents...

OSCE Chairperson extends condolences, calls for swift investigation into tragic murders near Skopje

Publishing date: 13 April 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
DUBLIN, 13 April 2012 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore, today expressed his condolences to the families of five ethnic Macedonians murdered last night in a village near Skopje...

OSCE Mission in Kosovo welcomes new legislation on public broadcaster

Publishing date: 13 April 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
Prishtinë/Priština, 13 April 2012 – The Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Werner Almhofer, welcomed today the promulgation of the new law on public broadcaster Radio Television of Kosovo (RTK)...