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OSCE Mission to Croatia and Education Ministry organize children's art contest to promote co-existence and friendship
Publishing date: 6 September 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Education, Tolerance and non-discrimination
VUKOVAR, 6 September 2006- A children's literary and art competition aiming to promote co-existence and friendship in the Danube Region opened today in Vukovar. The contest for children from multicultural schools is organized by the OSCE Mission...
OSCE Office opens training centre to help reduce unemployment in Armenia
Publishing date: 6 September 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
YEREVAN, 6 September 2006- Reducing unemployment in Armenia's Ararat province is the aim of a training Centre that opened in the village of Zorak today. Supported by the OSCE Office in Yerevan and...
OSCE trains Kazakh officials to observe human rights in the fight against terrorism
Publishing date: 5 September 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Human rights, Countering terrorism
ASTANA, 5 September 2006- How to ensure basic human rights are protected in the fight against terrorism will be the focus of a training course for Kazak officials that began in Astana today. Organized by the OSCE Centre in Almaty and...
OSCE media freedom representative asks Azerbaijan's president to help stop new wave of prosecution of journalists, urges legal reform
Publishing date: 4 September 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 4 September 2006- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, has expressed concern over recent cases of prosecution of journalists in Azerbaijan and proposed a legal reform as a way out of the situation. In a letter...
OSCE Chairman concerned helicopter incident in Georgia contradicts commitments
Publishing date: 4 September 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BRUSSELS, 4 September 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office Karel De Gucht expressed concern today about an incident on Sunday in which a Georgian helicopter carrying the country's Minister of Defence was fired upon from the South Ossetian side as it...
OSCE Mission to Skopje helps strengthen role of neighborhood self-government units
Publishing date: 4 September 2006
SKOPJE, 4 September 2006- The first of five OSCE-supported regional workshops on the role of units helping citizens participate in governing their neighbourhoods began in Kicevo today...
OSCE Office concerned about violations of the presumption of innocence in criminal proceedings in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 4 September 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Rule of law
BAKU, 4 September 2006- A report on Azerbaijan's adherence to the principle of presumption of innocence suggests that journalists, police officers, prosecutors and judges often treat suspicion of guilt and proof of criminal behaviour as...