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OSCE Mission supports Finland study visit for BiH history educators

Publishing date: 22 September 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Education
SARAJEVO, 22 September 2011 – The Committee for the Reform of History Teaching in Bosnia and Herzegovina concluded today a five-day study visit supported by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina to education institutions and organizations in Finland...

OSCE media freedom representative calls on Ukrainian government to allow independent Kharkiv broadcaster back on air

Publishing date: 22 September 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 22 September 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today urged the Ukrainian Government to help restore media pluralism in Kharkiv by allowing ATN news broadcaster back on air...

OSCE Annual Police Experts Meeting to focus on reform of criminal justice system

Publishing date: 22 September 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
VIENNA, 22 September 2011 – A two-day Annual Police Experts Meeting (APEM) that started in Vienna today gathered some 120 international criminal justice experts who will share best practices and discuss how the reform of the criminal justice system can build capacity and increase effectiveness of the police structures...

OSCE promotes dialogue on human rights mechanisms in Kazakhstan

Publishing date: 22 September 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Human rights
KARAGANDA, Kazakhstan, 22 September 2011 – An OSCE-supported discussion on strengthening co-operation between the Ombudsman, state institutions and civil society was organized in Karaganda today...

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office welcomes resumption of official ‘5+2’ negotiations on Transdniestrian settlement

Publishing date: 22 September 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
NEW YORK/MOSCOW, 22 September 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, welcomed today’s agreement in Moscow to resume official ‘5+2’ negotiations on the Transdniestrian settlement...

OSCE and Council of Europe leaders discussed joint efforts to fight terrorism and human trafficking, promote minority rights and support democratic transition processes in the Southern Mediterranean

Publishing date: 21 September 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretary General
What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Countering terrorism
NEW YORK, United States, 21 September 2011- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier met the Council of Europe’s Chairperson of the Committee of Ministers, Ukraine’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, and Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland in New York today.

ODIHR Director: OSCE’s early crisis response must include human rights

Publishing date: 21 September 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The OSCE’s early response to emerging conflicts must include a human rights track next to conventional political efforts if human rights violations are at the root of a crisis, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, said at a meeting on enhancing the Organization’s early response capacities in Vienna on 20 September 2011...