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OSCE Mission holds seminar for Georgian and Ossetian students on human rights
Publishing date: 15 November 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
TBILISI, 15 November 2005- Forty-five Georgian and Ossetian students took part in a five-day seminar on human rights laws and conflict resolution, that ended this week. Organized by the OSCE Mission to Georgia and...
OSCE Mission to Skopje organizes study trip for Georgian police
Publishing date: 15 November 2005
SKOPJE, 15 November 2005- A group of high-ranking Georgian police officers arrived yesterday in Skopje to study police reform, particularly in the field of community policing. The visit is supported by the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje and...
OSCE Centre supports development of "business incubators" in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 15 November 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Economic activities
BISHKEK, 15 November 2005- Developing business incubators that nurture young firms, helping them to survive and grow during the start-up period when they are most vulnerable, and their role in reducing poverty in Kyrgyzstan, will be the focus...
OSCE Mission hosts first regional conference on police education and training in Belgrade
Publishing date: 15 November 2005
BELGRADE, 15 November 2005- Evaluating current police education and identifying additional joint police training programmes were the aims of the first Regional Conference on Police Training, organized by the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro...
OSCE Centre supports election lessons for first-time voters in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 15 November 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
ALMATY, 15 November 2005- Over 7,000 secondary school students from 10 regions of Kazakhstan who can cast their vote for the first time in the forthcoming presidential election on 4 December are today beginning a special course on elections, supported...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator awards top Ukrainian journalism students
Publishing date: 14 November 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Media freedom and development
KYIV, 14 November 2005- An awards ceremony today marked the end of a pilot project by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine providing internships for outstanding journalism students from different regions of Ukraine...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes new Macedonian broadcast law
Publishing date: 11 November 2005
Content type: Press release
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws
VIENNA, 11 November 2005- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, lauded the new Law on Broadcast Activity, passed Wednesday at a Parliamentary session in Skopje, to regulate the private broadcasting industry, as well as...