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OSCE expert meeting: education is key element to promote respect and fight intolerance
Publishing date: 23 October 2006
Content type: Press release
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
DUBROVNIK, 23 October 2006- Teacher training, improved curricula and education about the Holocaust are central elements in the fight against racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism, speakers said at an international OSCE meeting in Croatia today...
Croatia signs memorandum of understanding with OSCE/ODIHR on fighting hate crime
Publishing date: 23 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
DUBROVNIK, 23 October 2006- The Croatian Interior Ministry and the OSCE/ODIHR today signed a memorandum of understanding under which Croatia commits to institutionalize hate crime training within the existing national curriculum for police training...
OSCE Office in Baku welcomes Azerbaijani president's pardon of two newspaper editors
Publishing date: 23 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Media freedom and development, Rule of law
BAKU, 23 October 2006- The Head of the OSCE Office in Baku today welcomed the Azerbaijani president's pardon of two newspaper editors imprisoned this year for libel...
OSCE organizes media training programme in Brussels
Publishing date: 23 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development
BRUSSELS, 23 October 2006- The relationship between journalism and politics, media laws, investigative reporting, and the role of the media in a democratic society will be the focus of an OSCE training course in Brussels this week...
Experts discuss ways to counter terrorist incitement at OSCE workshop
Publishing date: 20 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
VIENNA, 20 October 2006- Strategies to counter terrorist incitement and recruitment while respecting human rights were the focus of a two-day expert workshop that ended in Vienna today...
OSCE Office trains Azerbaijani police in dealing with public assemblies
Publishing date: 20 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Policing
BAKU, 20 October 2006- A two-week training programme on police tactics during rallies, public demonstrations or major events, organized by the OSCE Office in Baku, ended in Azerbaijan today. "Freedom of assembly...
OSCE Office organizes workshop on combating trafficking in Armenia
Publishing date: 20 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
YEREVAN, 20 October 2006- Developing and implementing a national strategy and action plan to combat trafficking in human beings and best practices in the field were discussed at a workshop that ended in Yerevan today...