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OSCE Youth Forum opens in Madrid
Publishing date: 5 November 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
MADRID, 5 November 2007- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office today opened the first OSCE Youth Forum in Madrid, organized on the initiative of the Spanish Chairmanship and welcomed by all 56 participating States...
OSCE Mission to Skopje shares best practices in education with Bosnia and Herzegovina delegation
Publishing date: 5 November 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
SKOPJE, 5 November 2007- A delegation of education experts from Bosnia and Herzegovina arrived in Skopje today on a visit to study school governance issues, in particular, school board and school management functioning in the host country...
Media self-regulation in Central Asia focus of OSCE Conference
Publishing date: 2 November 2007
Content type: Press release
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media self-regulation
DUSHANBE, 2 November 2007- Media self-regulation and its benefits for media freedom was the focus of the Ninth Central Asia Media Conference that ended today in Dushanbe...
OSCE Office-supported report on Armenian civil service recruitment encourages civil monitoring
Publishing date: 2 November 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Democratization
YEREVAN, 2 November 2007- Armenia could improve the transparency and effectiveness of its civil service through, among other measures, better testing and monitoring, concluded a report released today with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan...
Severe prison sentence for journalist violates Azerbaijan's commitment to free press, says OSCE media watchdog
Publishing date: 1 November 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 1 November 2007- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, criticized today the eight-and-a-half year combined prison sentence handed down to an Azerbaijani journalist and newspaper publisher...
OSCE Mission calls for referral mechanism for trafficking victims in Kosovo
Publishing date: 31 October 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
PRISTINA, 31 October 2007- The number of local victims of human trafficking is growing, and improved mechanisms are needed to help identify and assist these people, said the OSCE Mission in an assessment presented today...
OSCE conference fosters co-operation on Central Asia environment
Publishing date: 31 October 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities, Education
TASHKENT, 31 October 2007- Technology transfers and strengthening co-operation between the public and private sectors to tackle Central Asia's environmental issues was the focus of an international conference organized by the OSCE that ended today...