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OSCE Office organizes human rights training for young activists from Armenia's regions
Publishing date: 14 July 2009
SEVAN, Armenia, 14 July 2009- Twenty-seven young activists and representatives of non-governmental organizations from Armenia's regions completed an OSCE-supported training course on human rights in Sevan today...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports efforts to raise awareness of women's rights
Publishing date: 14 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Gender equality
SKOPJE, 14 July 2009- Judges, public prosecutors, Ombudsman office staff and attorneys will participate in a series of OSCE-supported training sessions that aim to raise awareness of women's rights and improve the justice system's handling of related...
OSCE media freedom representative says new Polish media law endangers public-service media, urges Constitutional Court review
Publishing date: 10 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 10 July 2009- OSCE media freedom representative Miklos Haraszti said today that Poland's new media law fails to secure the independence of public-service media and urged the President to send the law for review by the Constitutional Court...
Statement by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries
Publishing date: 10 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Minsk Group
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
L'AQUILA, Italy, 10 July 2009- The countries of the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group released today the following joint statement on the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict by U.S. President Obama, Russian President Medvedev and French President Sarkozy:
OSCE Centre supports workshop on election coverage for Kyrgyz journalists
Publishing date: 10 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
BISHKEK, 10 July 2009- A workshop for journalists on covering presidential elections was held today with the support of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek...
OSCE Mission to Skopje promotes training for teachers working in multi-ethnic environments
Publishing date: 10 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Education, National minority issues, Roma and Sinti
SKOPJE, 10 July 2009- Twenty pedagogy students from Skopje University had the opportunity to learn teaching techniques in an intercultural context and acquire knowledge of Roma culture through an OSCE-supported workshop which ended in Bitola today...
OSCE Special Representative launches research on human trafficking for agricultural exploitation
Publishing date: 9 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
VIENNA, 9 July 2009- The OSCE Special Representative for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Eva Biaudet, launched a new publication on addressing human trafficking for labour exploitation in the agricultural sector in the OSCE region today...