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OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to hold conference on migration

Publishing date: 3 October 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, National minority issues
COPENHAGEN, 13 September 2001 (OSCE)-- From 10 to 11 October 2001 in Penha Longa, Portugal, parliamentary delegations from 45 OSCE participating States will participate in a conference to discuss new approaches to the challenges...

Tajik Street Law Clinic opened doors

Publishing date: 1 October 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
DUSHANBE, 1 October 2001 (OSCE)- Today, the first Tajik Legal Clinic opened its doors at the Law Faculty of the Slavonic University in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The Street Law Clinic represents the initial step in the creation of a Legal Support Center...

Intolerance to Kosovo minorities hampers developing democracy

Publishing date: 1 October 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, National minority issues
PRISTINA, 1 October 2001 (OSCE)-- Slow progress is being made in improving conditions for Kosovo\'s minorities, according to the latest OSCE and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) assessment on the situation of minorities...

OSCE boosts the size and scope of its Skopje Mission

Publishing date: 29 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Border management, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 29 September 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE Permanent Council has decided to send a further 159 international officers to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, to add to the 51 already deployed. This additional number will include a further...

OSCE human rights office calls for independent investigation of unsolved disappearances and murders in Belarus and Ukraine

Publishing date: 24 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
WARSAW, 21 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE's human rights institution, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), today called for an independent investigation of the murder of the Ukrainian journalist Georgyi Gongadze...

OSCE Permanent Council expresses concern about recent anti-Muslim incidents

Publishing date: 21 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues
VIENNA, 21 September 2001 (OSCE)- Coming together for a special session to discuss the fight against terrorism, the OSCE Permanent Council today expressed its concern about reports of anti-Muslim incidents and violence in several OSCE countries...

OSCE encourages women to participate in multi-ethnic police training in Yugoslavia

Publishing date: 21 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, National minority issues, Policing
BELGRADE, 21 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia welcomes the beginning of a campaign to include women in the training program for multi-ethnic police, which the OSCE and the Serb Ministry of Interior...