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Greek Alternate Foreign Minister calls for strengthened mechanisms for tackling challenges in OSCE area

Publishing date: 6 November 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 6 November 2009. The Special Envoy of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Greek Alternate Minister for Foreign Affairs Dimitris P. Droutsas, stressed today the need for practical results on the ground in the OSCE's work...

OSCE Centre supports discussion to strengthen Kazakhstan's legal reforms

Publishing date: 6 November 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Democratization, Rule of law
ASTANA, 6 November 2009-Officials from the government and the presidential administration as well as parliamentarians and high-ranking civil servants involved in Kazakhstan's law-making process, policy-making and legal reform discussed Kazakhstan's...

OSCE announces winners of video contest on civil society

Publishing date: 6 November 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development, National minority issues, Policing, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
VIENNA, 5 November 2009- The winners of a video contest highlighting civil society in action, launched by the OSCE to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain, were announced at the OSCE Permanent Council today...

OSCE meeting on gender equality begins with calls for increased efforts to combat violence against women

Publishing date: 5 November 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Gender equality, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
VIENNA, 5 November 2009- A special OSCE meeting on gender equality started today with participants calling for increased efforts by participating States to prevent violence against women, prosecute perpetrators and provide adequate protection...

OSCE supports setting up demining unit in Tajikistan

Publishing date: 5 November 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Arms control
DUSHANBE, 5 November 2009- A ceremony to mark the establishment of an OSCE-supported operational humanitarian mine clearance unit within the Defence Ministry was held at the OSCE Office in Tajikistan today.

OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports conference to improve labour migration regulation

Publishing date: 5 November 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Economic activities, Border management
LEILEK, Kyrgyzstan, 5 November 2009- A conference that looked at the challenges related to cross-border labour migration between Kyrgyzstan's southwestern Batken province and Tajikistan's northern Sogd province was held in the Batken town of Leilek...

Croatia interested in strengthening OSCE, Foreign Minister says

Publishing date: 5 November 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Rule of law
VIENNA, 5 November 2009- Croatia finds the OSCE-anchored dialogue on the future of European security useful and expects it to reinforce the effectiveness of the OSCE, Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic told the Permanent Council today...