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OSCE participating States adopt Plan of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons

Publishing date: 26 May 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation
What we do: Arms control
VIENNA, 26 May 2010- The 56 OSCE participating States adopted a plan of action to tackle the threat of small arms and light weapons (SALW) at a meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation in Vienna today...

OSCE National Minorities Commissioner discusses Hungarian citizenship law with Slovak Foreign Minister

Publishing date: 26 May 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues, Rule of law
THE HAGUE, 26 May 2010- The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Knut Vollebaek, made the following statement after a meeting yesterday in The Hague with Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak on the proposed amendments to the Law on...

OSCE/ODIHR gathers experts in Berlin to evaluate education programme to combat anti-Semitism

Publishing date: 26 May 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Education, National minority issues, Tolerance and non-discrimination
BERLIN, 26 May 2010- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) gathered experts from 12 countries in Berlin today to exchange experiences on implementing an education programme on combating anti-Semitism that...

OSCE Centre in Bishkek launches training for journalists in southern Kyrgyzstan

Publishing date: 26 May 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Media freedom and development
JALAL-ABAD, Kyrgyzstan, 26 May 2010- The first of two media training seminars organized by the OSCE Office in Bishkek for local journalists and human rights defenders in southern Kyrgyzstan started in Jalal-Abad today...

OSCE/ODIHR opens observation mission for constitutional referendum in Kyrgyzstan

Publishing date: 25 May 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
BISHKEK, 25 May 2010- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today formally opened an observation mission for the 27 June constitutional referendum in Kyrgyzstan...

OSCE workshop on combating human trafficking in Uzbekistan

Publishing date: 25 May 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
TASHKENT, 25 May 2010- Building the capacity of law enforcement personnel to combat human trafficking is the focus of a three-day workshop that opened in Tashkent today...

OSCE supports dialogue on transport-related challenges at concluding session of 18th OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum

Publishing date: 24 May 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
PRAGUE, 24 May 2010- Promoting good governance at border crossings, improving the security of land transportation and facilitating international transport by road and rail in the OSCE region is the focus of the OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum...