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More action is needed to end discrimination against Europe's Roma, states are told at OSCE meeting

Publishing date: 10 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Roma and Sinti
VIENNA, 10 July 2008- An OSCE meeting on improving the integration of Roma and Sinti opened today in Vienna with calls to participating States to step up their efforts to end widespread discrimination.

OSCE hosts Central Asia legal workshop to help boost fight against organized crime

Publishing date: 9 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Democratization, Economic activities, Border management, Environmental activities, Conflict prevention and resolution, Good governance, Countering terrorism, Policing
ALMATY, 9 July 2008- International legal experts joined 68 counterparts from Central Asia, Afghanistan and Ukraine today at an OSCE-hosted workshop focusing on confiscating criminal assets, combating money laundering...

OSCE Mission calls on Kosovo institutions to implement law on languages

Publishing date: 9 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: National minority issues
PRISHTINE/PRISTINA, 9 July 2008- The OSCE Mission called today for municipalities in Kosovo to make more effort to comply with legislation on use of languages...

OSCE Ambassadors call for dialogue in Georgia's conflict zones to de-escalate serious tensions

Publishing date: 9 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
TBILISI, 9 July 2008- The Chairman of the OSCE Permanent Council, Finnish Ambassador Antti Turunen, called on the sides in the Georgian-Ossetian and Georgian-Abkhaz conflicts today to urgently resume dialogue in order to de-escalate tensions...

OSCE Office supports discussion on preventing torture

Publishing date: 9 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
DUSHANBE, 09 July 2008- The prohibition and criminalization of torture, as well as the rehabilitation of torture victims, was the focus of a two-day roundtable discussion, supported by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan, that concluded today in Dushanbe...

Albanian Parliament and OSCE Presence conclude series of local policy forums on challenges of EU integration

Publishing date: 9 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Democratization
TIRANA, 9 July 2008- Discussing anticipated positive and negative effects of Albania's EU integration process was the purpose of eight OSCE-supported forums with local communities around Albania, the last of which ended today...

OSCE Office in Baku launches information sessions on non-interference in the electoral process

Publishing date: 9 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
BAKU, 9 July 2008- The OSCE Office in Baku today opened a series of one-day information sessions for leaders of local election authorities on non-interference in the electoral process...