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OSCE Mission presents manual on domestic violence for Kosovo's social workers
Publishing date: 9 March 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
PRISTINA, 9 March 2006- A manual that will help social workers better assist victims of domestic violence was today presented by Amb. Werner Wnendt, the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, to Ibrahim Selmanaj, PISG Minister of Labor and Social Welfare...
OSCE Skopje Mission donates translation equipment to promote inter-ethnic dialogue
Publishing date: 9 March 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
SKOPJE, 9 March 2006- Ensuring a greater participation by local citizens in the activities of Cucer Sandevo is the aim of the decision by the OSCE Spillover Monitoring Mission to Skopje to donate equipment for simultaneous translation, to the...
OSCE clarifies news agency stories on visit to Guantanamo
Publishing date: 9 March 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Human rights, Countering terrorism
VIENNA, 9 March 2006- An OSCE Spokesperson responded today to several misleading news agency stories about the visit of a delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE to the detention centre at the US naval base of Guantanamo. The stories...
OSCE media watchdog calls on Romania to drop leak cases against journalists
Publishing date: 8 March 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 8 March 2006- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklós Haraszti, has written to Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu, urging authorities to do everything in their power to drop charges against two journalists...
"Positive spirit" needed to solve problems over Transdniestrian section of Moldova-Ukraine border- OSCE Chairman
Publishing date: 8 March 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution
BRUSSELS, 8 March 2006- Concerned about current problems along the Transdniestrian section of the Moldovan-Ukrainian state border, OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, has instructed the Organization's Mission in Moldova...
OSCE Office launches essay competition for Armenian students on gender issues
Publishing date: 7 March 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Gender equality
YEREVAN, 7 March 2006- The role of women in decision-making will be the theme of a student essay competition that will be launched tomorrow by the OSCE Office in Yerevan. Organized in co-operation with the Centre for the Development of Civil Society...
Academy for the training of judges and prosecutors opens in Skopje
Publishing date: 7 March 2006
SKOPJE, 7 March 2006- Justice Minister, Meri Mladenovska-Gjorgjievska, has opened the Academy for the Training of Judges and Prosecutors in Skopje, marking the institutionalisation of continuing education work previously done by...