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OSCE Rights Office, Minorities Commissioner call for greater efforts to improve the situation of Roma

Publishing date: 8 April 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Roma and Sinti
WARSAW/THE HAGUE, 8 April 2010- The Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Ambassador Janez Lenarcic, and Ambassador Knut Vollebaek, the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, called today on governments...

Access to information in Kyrgyzstan should be immediately restored, says OSCE Media Freedom Representative

Publishing date: 7 April 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 7 April 2010- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, today called for restoration of information flow by allowing journalists to report on the situation in the country...

OSCE Office organizes discussions on ODIHR election recommendations

Publishing date: 7 April 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Elections, Rule of law
BAKU, 8 April 2010- The OSCE Office in Baku is today launching a series of roundtable discussions with political parties and civil society to follow-up the recommendations by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in 2008.

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office deeply concerned about unrest in Kyrgyzstan

Publishing date: 7 April 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Policing, Rule of law
ASTANA, 7 April 2010- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Kazakhstan's State Secretary and Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev, in a phone conversation with Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Kadyrbek Sarbayev today expressed deep concern about the unrest in Kyrgyzstan.

OSCE, Council of Europe and European Union present assistance plans to Azerbaijan parliamentary elections

Publishing date: 7 April 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Elections
BAKU, 7 April 2010- Representatives of the OSCE, the Council of Europe and the European Union today jointly presented their plans for assisting the Republic of Azerbaijan to prepare for the parliamentary elections to be held in November...

Afghan customs academy officials visit Kyrgyzstan, OSCE Centre in Bishkek to discuss co-operation

Publishing date: 2 April 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution
BISHKEK, 2 April 2010- The OSCE Centre in Bishkek hosted a delegation from Afghanistan's National Customs Academy this week to discuss the participation of Afghan officers in the OSCE's customs training development project in Kyrgyzstan.

OSCE holds expert panel at French Gendarmerie meeting on tackling cyber threats

Publishing date: 1 April 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
LILLE, France, 1 April 2010- An expert panel organized by the OSCE's Action against Terrorism Unit today at the Fourth International Forum on Cybercriminality, in Lille discussed responses, countermeasures and the way forward in securing cyberspace...