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OSCE Centre promotes civil society participation in environmental decision-making in Kazakhstan

Publishing date: 27 August 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 27 August 2012 – A two-day OSCE-supported conference on environmental security and protection initiated by the Ecological Forum of Non-governmental Organizations of Kazakhstan (EcoForum) concluded in Almaty today...

OSCE Special Representative promotes creative anti-slavery campaigns at Scotland’s Festival of Politics

Publishing date: 23 August 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
EDINBURGH, United Kingdom, 24 August 2012- The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, spoke today at the Festival of Politics highlighting the benefits of using photography, theatre and dance in campaigns to raise awareness about the growing problem of modern-day slavery.

OSCE/ODIHR opens mission to observe parliamentary elections in Belarus

Publishing date: 22 August 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
MINSK, 22 August 2012 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today opened an election observation mission for the parliamentary elections to be held in Belarus on 23 September...

OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities warns against demolishing ethnic-Georgian villages in South Ossetia

Publishing date: 22 August 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: National minority issues
THE HAGUE, 22 August 2012 – OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek today asked the de-facto leadership of the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia to clarify a statement indicating that it plans to demolish ethnic-Georgian villages...

OSCE Centre supports dialogue on Kazakhstan’s population registration legislation

Publishing date: 22 August 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Democratization
ASTANA, 22 August 2012 – Some 40 parliamentarians, government officials, and representatives of political parties, academia and civil society organizations discussed today at an OSCE-supported event how to improve the national population registration and management of internal migration in Kazakhstan...

OSCE/ODIHR opens mission to observe parliamentary elections in Georgia

Publishing date: 22 August 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
TBILISI, 22 August 2012 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today opened an election observation mission for the parliamentary elections to be held in Georgia on 1 October...

Freedom of expression at stake, warns OSCE media freedom representative following Pussy Riot verdict

Publishing date: 17 August 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Media freedom and development, Media laws, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 17 August 2012 – Responding to the verdict against the Russian punk band Pussy Riot today, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović warned of a dangerous tendency towards curbing freedom of expression...