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OSCE Mission to Skopje launches education decentralization project
Publishing date: 1 June 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Education
SKOPJE, 1 June 2006- The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje today launched a brochure that features information about decentralization in education. The 20-page publication is part of a project that aims to help municipalities...
OSCE Chairman urges Transdniestrian authorities to re-engage in political dialogue with Chisinau
Publishing date: 1 June 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
TIRASPOL, 1 June 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, today urged the Transdniestrian authorities to accept without any preconditions a proposal to renew negotiations with Chisinau within the 5+2 format...
OSCE and UN hold roundtable on prison conditions in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 1 June 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
DUSHANBE, 1 June 2006- How to improve conditions at detention facilities in Tajikistan was the theme of a roundtable organized by the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe and the United Nations Office of Peace-building in Tajikistan...
ODIHR opens mission in Skopje to observe 5 July parliamentary polls
Publishing date: 31 May 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WARSAW/SKOPJE, 31 May 2006- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has established an Election Observation Mission in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to monitor the 5 July parliamentary elections...
Transdniestrian settlement, border issues top agenda of OSCE Chairman's visit to Moldova
Publishing date: 31 May 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
CHISINAU, 31 May 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, today urged all parties involved in the Transdniestrian question to return to the negotiating table. "We need to get the process going...
OSCE media watchdog to survey sanctions against press for publishing classified information or not revealing sources
Publishing date: 30 May 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 30 May 2006- The Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media will produce a database of rules, sanctions for disseminating unauthorised information, protection of sources and other laws affecting...
OSCE Mission to Skopje helps women participate more actively in politics
Publishing date: 30 May 2006
SKOPJE, 30 May 2006- Achievements of OSCE-supported projects aimed at increasing the participation of women in decision-making processes and bodies were discussed today in Skopje at the conference "Women Can Do It II- 2006 Parliamentary Elections"...