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Two reports detail OSCE activities during 2000
Publishing date: 27 November 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Summits / Ministerial Councils
VIENNA, 27 November 2000-- Two reports describing OSCE activities during the past year were released by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Vienna today...
OSCE condemns murder of four Ashkali men in Kosovo
Publishing date: 11 November 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues, Roma and Sinti
PRISTINA, 10 November 2000-- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo strongly condemns the brutal murders in Skenderaj / Srbica on Wednesday night of four members of the Ashkali community...
OSCE human rights conference closes
Publishing date: 27 October 2000
Content type: Press release
WARASAW, 27 October 2000-- Government representatives from OSCE participating States today reaffirmed their commitment to implement human rights standards...
Key Roma organizations reach breakthrough agreement at Warsaw meeting
Publishing date: 24 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Roma and Sinti
WARSAW, 24 October 2000-- Europe\'s leading Roma organizations achieved a breakthrough agreement on a common approach towards the highly controversial issue of Roma migration from Central and Eastern Europe...
Largest all-European human rights conference opens
Publishing date: 17 October 2000
Content type: Press release
WARSAW, 17 October 2000- Government representatives from 54 OSCE participating States, human rights experts, and more than 150 international and non-governmental organizations gathered today in Warsaw...
OSCE to address controversial issue of Roma refugees and asylum seekers
Publishing date: 11 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Migration, National minority issues, Roma and Sinti
WARSAW, 11 October 2000- Every year, thousands of Roma, also known as Gypsies, from East Central and South Eastern Europe leave their homes and seek asylum, mostly in countries of Western Europe and North America...
Human rights report: Kosovo minorities sidelined from society
Publishing date: 9 June 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues, Roma and Sinti
PRISTINA, 9 June 2000-- Lack of security and restricted freedom of movement prevent Kosovo minorities from accessing public services...