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OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje supports Ombudsman's role in fighting discrimination
Publishing date: 14 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
SKOPJE, 14 October 2010- A theatre play that aims to reduce stereotypes and prejudice is a part of the third and final phase of an OSCE-sponsored project to promote the Ombudsman Institution was presented today in Skopje...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator supports seminar to prevent trafficking of labour migrants' children
Publishing date: 13 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
KYIV, 13 October 2010- An OSCE-supported seminar that started today looks at how social workers can help protect labour migrants' children from human trafficking...
OSCE media freedom representative: Ukraine should take swift and resolute measures to entrench its exemplary record in media pluralism
Publishing date: 13 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development, Media pluralism, Rule of law
KYIV, 13 October 2010- Ukraine has achieved a great level of media freedom but it must take urgent steps to safeguard it, Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, said today...
OSCE/ODIHR opens mission to assess congressional elections in the United States
Publishing date: 13 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WASHINGTON, 13 October 2010- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today formally opened an election assessment mission for the mid-term congressional elections to be held in the United States on 2 November...
Experts discuss future prospects for Central Asia at OSCE Academy in Bishkek
Publishing date: 12 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Education
BISHKEK, 12 October 2010- A seminar supported by Kazakhstan's OSCE Chairmanship to mark the 20th anniversary of the OSCE Charter of Paris and nearly two decades of independence of the Central Asian states was held at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek today...
OSCE Chairperson welcomes peaceful conduct of Kyrgyzstan elections, reiterates support to stabilization efforts
Publishing date: 11 October 2010
ASTANA, 11 October 2010- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Secretary of State and Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan, Kanat Saudabayev praised today the conduct of the 10 October elections in Kyrgyzstan and restated support to political stabilization...
OSCE Centre organizes study tour to Estonia for neighbourhood watch leaders from Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 11 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Policing, Rule of law
TALLINN, 11 October 2010- An OSCE-supported visit to Estonia of eight leaders of neighbourhood watch from Bishkek and Karakol started today...