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Deadline for nominations for the Max van der Stoel Award extended to 30 June

Publishing date: 26 May 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
The deadline for receipt of nominations for the 2011 Max van der Stoel Award, which recognizes outstanding achievements in improving the position of national minorities, has been extended to 30 June 2011.

OSCE organizes discussions on investment in hydropower in Tajikistan

Publishing date: 25 May 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Environmental activities
More than 40 officials and experts on water energy discussed on 24 May better utilization of hydropower as a step forward in economic development during a seminar in Dushanbe supported by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan and the Tajik-Norwegian Small-scale Hydro Power Initiative (SHP)...

OSCE holds regional training seminar in Lithuania to combat sexual abuse of children on the Internet

Publishing date: 25 May 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Gender equality, Policing, Rule of law
VILNIUS, 25 May 2011 – An OSCE-organized training seminar for cybercrime experts and law enforcement investigators on how to combat sexual abuse of children on the Internet began today in Vilnius. The OSCE organized the three-day seminar in close co-operation with the Lithuanian Ombudsman for Children's Rights...

Ambassador Ralf Breth appointed as Head of OSCE Mission to Skopje

Publishing date: 25 May 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
Ambassador Ralf Breth of Germany took up his appointment as the new Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje on 16 May...

OSCE promotes dialogue between government and religious leaders in southern Kyrgyzstan

Publishing date: 25 May 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 25 May 2011 – A roundtable on freedom of religion and belief brought together state officials and religious leaders from the three southern provinces of Osh, Jalal-Abad and Batken today...

OSCE media representative says Bosnia and Herzegovina urgently needs to uphold the editorial and political independence of its public service broadcaster

Publishing date: 25 May 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism, Media self-regulation
VIENNA, 25 May 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, said today that the recent changes to the statute of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s public service broadcaster (BHRT) may undermine its editorial independence...

OSCE/ODIHR organizes first training for entity police investigators handling war crimes cases in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Publishing date: 25 May 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Rule of law
BIHAĆ, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 25 May 2011- A two-day training seminar on investigations for police investigators and prosecutors handling war crimes cases in Bosnia and Herzegovina ended in Bihać today...