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OSCE media freedom representative condemns media intimidation in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Publishing date: 20 September 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
TIRANA, 20 September 2013- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today condemned two attacks on the media in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Last evening, the front door of the editorial office of Slobodna Bosna weekly was set on fire; at the same time in Mostar, graffiti appeared containing threats against local journalist Nermin Bise...

OSCE Centre organizes course on human rights in criminal proceedings for students in Turkmenistan

Publishing date: 20 September 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Human rights, Policing
ASHGABAT, 20 September 2013 – Some 30 students from the Interior Ministry’s Institute graduated from an OSCE-supported course on international human rights standards in the process of criminal proceedings and investigations, in Ashgabat today...

OSCE Mission to Skopje promotes engagement of inter-ethnic youth in municipal decision making in Kumanovo

Publishing date: 20 September 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Good governance, National minority issues, Youth, Tolerance and non-discrimination
Some ten youngsters of different ethnic backgrounds together with representatives of Kumanovo municipality will discuss mechanisms how youth problems should be better addressed and actions jointly planned at an OSCE-supported seminar taking place in Mavrovo from 20 to 22 September...

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office welcomes resumption of direct dialogue between leadership of Chisinau and Tiraspol

Publishing date: 19 September 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
KYIV, 19 September 2013 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Leonid Kozhara welcomes the agreement reached on a meeting of the Moldovan Prime Minister Iurie Leancă and Transdniestrian leader Yevgeniy Shevchuk, scheduled for 23 September in Tiraspol...

Reports on human rights in Kazakhstan in 2012 published with support of OSCE Centre

Publishing date: 19 September 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Human rights
ASTANA, 19 September 2013 – The OSCE Centre supported the publication of the 2012 annual report on the state of human rights in Kazakhstan and a special report on migrants’ rights in the country that were presented at the Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan today...

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office strongly condemns deadly attack on EULEX personnel in Kosovo, calls to bring perpetrators to justice

Publishing date: 19 September 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
KYIV, 19 September 2013 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara, strongly condemned today the attack on a EULEX convoy, which led to the death of one EULEX staff member in Zvečan/Zveçan Municipality in northern Kosovo...

OSCE/ODIHR opens election observation mission for presidential election in Georgia

Publishing date: 19 September 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
TBILISI, 19 September 2013 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today opened an election observation mission to monitor the 27 October presidential election in Georgia...