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OSCE/ODIHR deploys mission to observe parliamentary elections in Georgia
Publishing date: 10 April 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WARSAW/TBILISI, 10 April 2008- The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights opened an election observation mission today to monitor the Georgian parliamentary elections scheduled for 21 May 2008...
New OSCE Chairman urges solution of region's frozen conflicts, outlines other priorities for rest of year
Publishing date: 10 April 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
VIENNA, 10 April 2008- The OSCE needs to focus on the issues where it can make a real difference, including solving the region's frozen conflicts, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, told the Permanent Council today...
National workshop in Baku focuses on environment and security in South Caucasus region
Publishing date: 10 April 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Environmental activities
BAKU, 10 April 2008- Representatives from government ministries and civil society organizations will explore the importance of integrating environment and security considerations into national policy and planning at a national workshop in Baku today...
OSCE Centre provides ecology teaching aids to Tajik Ministry
Publishing date: 9 April 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Environmental activities
DUSHANBE, 9 April 2008- The OSCE Centre in Dushanbe handed over today 8,500 copies of a text book on ecology of Tajikistan to the Education Ministry at an event organized together with the State Environment Protection Committee...
OSCE representative encourages Belarus to work closer with NGOs to combat human trafficking
Publishing date: 8 April 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
MINSK, 8 April 2008- The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Human Trafficking, Eva Biaudet, encouraged the Belarus Government today to support NGOs working on protecting and assisting child victims of trafficking...
OSCE Mission to Skopje marks International Roma Day
Publishing date: 8 April 2008
SKOPJE, 8 April 2008- The Head of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje, Ambassador Giorgio Radicati, called today for the inclusion of vulnerable communities in public policy...
OSCE to work with the Armenian Rescue Service to improve emergency preparedness
Publishing date: 8 April 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
YEREVAN, 8 April 2008- The OSCE Office in Yerevan and the Armenian Rescue Service (ARS) signed an implementation agreement today that aims to improve the Public Information Centre of the Armenian Rescue Service...