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Balancing the need to protect identity and promote integration in education
Publishing date: 1 October 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: Education, National minority issues
How can States, policy-makers and educators find an appropriate balance between protecting identity and promoting integration in schools? This question was the focus of a side event organized by the office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities during the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting on 29 September 2014...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities welcomes efforts to improve inter-ethnic relations in Ukraine but remains concerned about situation in Crimea
Publishing date: 19 September 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: National minority issues
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Astrid Thors visited Ukraine from 15 to 17 September 2014 to take stock of the situation since her last visit. She said that while the situation remains extremely tense and challenging, there are positive developments, including the ceasefire following the signing of the Minsk Protocol on 5 September 2014.
High Commissioner looks forward to the clarification of Albania’s national minority protection framework
Publishing date: 12 September 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: National minority issues
In the first visit by a High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) to Albania since 1994, Astrid Thors exchanged views with the country’s President Bujar Nishani and Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati on regional co-operation. She welcomed the country’s proactive steps to forge closer ties with its regional neighbours, particularly in education matters, stressing that “national minorities can be a bridge to facilitate such initiatives"...
OSCE Mission to Serbia supports preparations for upcoming Minority Council elections
Publishing date: 10 September 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Elections, National minority issues
BELGRADE, 10 September 2014 – The OSCE Mission to Serbia, at the request of the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government and the Republican Electoral Commission, supported the translation into several minority languages of legislation related to the upcoming elections to the National Councils of National Minorities (NMCs)...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities focuses on education during visit to Serbia
Publishing date: 2 September 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: Education, National minority issues
During her visit to Belgrade OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) on 28 and 29 August 2014, Astrid Thors took part in the presentation of a study co-financed by HCNM on teaching and learning the Serbian language as a non-mother tongue in South Serbia...
OSCE Mission to Serbia supports Government's call for minorities to register for council elections
Publishing date: 7 August 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: National minority issues
BELGRADE, 7 August 2014- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Peter Burkhard, welcomed the announcement made by the Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Kori Udovicki regarding the upcoming elections to the National Minority Councils...
Ukraine in focus in OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities’ second statement to Permanent Council
Publishing date: 10 July 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: National minority issues
In her second statement to the Permanent Council on 10 July 2014, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Astrid Thors focused on aspects of the crisis in Ukraine related to her mandate...