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OSCE elections body deploys election observation mission to Belarus
Publishing date: 12 August 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WARSAW/MINSK, 12 August 2008- The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) deployed an election observation mission today for the 28 September parliamentary elections in Belarus...
OSCE experts in Italy to assess situation of Roma and Sinti
Publishing date: 21 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Roma and Sinti
MILAN, 21 July 2008- A delegation of OSCE experts arrived in Italy today to assess the human rights situation of the Roma and Sinti population in the country...
OSCE Chairmanship holds seminar on elections
Publishing date: 21 July 2008
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
VIENNA, 21 July 2008- Representatives of OSCE participating States gathered at a seminar in Vienna today to discuss the Organization's role in assisting the development of electoral processes, including through election observation...
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
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 trains lawmakers and officials in Georgia on preserving human rights in fight against terrorism
Publishing date: 8 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Countering terrorism
BATUMI, 8 July 2008- The protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms in countering terrorism is the focus of an OSCE training course for Georgian officials that began in Batumi today...
Janez Lenarcic takes up job as new ODIHR director
Publishing date: 1 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Elections
WARSAW, 1 July 2008- Ambassador Janez Lenarcic of Slovenia today assumed his new function as director of the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights...
OSCE, Council of Europe: amendments to Kyrgyzstan's assembly law raise serious concerns
Publishing date: 1 July 2008
Content type: Press release
WARSAW/STRASBOURG, 2 July 2008- The amendments to Kyrgyzstan's assembly law passed by Parliament on 13 June raise a number of serious concerns, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and the Council of Europe's...