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OSCE welcomes opening of multilingual university department in south Serbia

Publishing date: 28 October 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: National minority issues
BUJANOVAC, Serbia, 28 October 2011 – The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Knut Vollebaek and the Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Dimitrios Kypreos, today attended the opening of the first multilingual and multi-ethnic university department in Bujanovac...

OSCE/ODIHR and partners promote debate on political party financing in Moldova

Publishing date: 28 October 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Democratization
Representatives of political parties, government bodies and non-governmental organizations discussed ways to meet OSCE commitments to pluralism in the financing of political parties at a two-day conference co-organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems on 27 and 28 October 2011 in Chisinau...

More political leadership and media engagement needed to confront anti-Muslim rhetoric, say OSCE meeting participants

Publishing date: 28 October 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
VIENNA, 28 October, 2011 – OSCE participating States’ governments and other key actors must challenge intolerant public discourse against Muslims, while preserving freedom of expression, concluded participants at an OSCE high-level meeting...

OSCE improves teaching skills of Afghan customs officers

Publishing date: 27 October 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Border management
BISHKEK, 27 October 2011- An educational course for Afghan customs officers held in the ‘training-of-trainers’ format concluded in Bishkek today...

Authorities and media must respect role of journalists, says OSCE media freedom representative in Skopje

Publishing date: 27 October 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media self-regulation, Safety of journalists
SKOPJE, 27 October 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, concluded today her first official visit to Skopje where she discussed the country’s media freedom situation with journalists and government officials...

OSCE Centre supports discussion on local self-governance in Kazakhstan

Publishing date: 27 October 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Good governance
ASTANA, 27 October 2011 – The state of local self-governance in Kazakhstan was the focus of a roundtable discussion held in Astana today...

OSCE Mission report says most Orthodox graveyards in Kosovo in poor condition

Publishing date: 27 October 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights
Municipalities in Kosovo, who are responsible for maintaining Orthodox graveyards, tend to do so on an ad hoc basis and only rarely, says the OSCE Mission report published in Prishtine/Pristina on 26 October, 2011...