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OSCE Mission calls for adequate resources to help rehabilitate torture victims
Publishing date: 26 June 2006
PRISTINA- 26 June 2006- The Acting Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Jens Modvig, marked the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture today by calling for rehabilitation resources to be made available to torture victims...
OSCE/ODIHR issues recommendations on Ukrainian elections
Publishing date: 23 June 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WARSAW, 23 June 2006- The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights urges Ukraine to establish a centralized voter register, harmonize its election-related laws and increase the professionalism of lower-level election commissions...
OSCE's office in Ukraine organizes training seminar on role of business in the community
Publishing date: 23 June 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Economic activities, Human rights, Education
KHARKIV, 23 June 2006- An OSCE-led training seminar to show business leaders how they can help strengthen the community opened today in the Eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv...
OSCE Centre organizes meeting that reviews electoral reform in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 23 June 2006
BISHKEK, 23 June 2006- Kyrgyzstan has made some progress towards meeting OSCE election commitments during presidential and local elections in 2005 and parliamentary by-elections in 2006. However, the country's authorities still need...
OSCE Chairman visits economic projects in zone of Georgian-Ossetian conflict and calls for greater co-operation on security
Publishing date: 23 June 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Economic activities, Conflict prevention and resolution
TBILISI, 23 June 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, visited several economic rehabilitation projects today in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict, as part of a two-day visit to Georgia...
OSCE to hold workshop on media reporting techniques for journalists from Kosovo and Serbia proper
Publishing date: 22 June 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
VIENNA, 22 June 2006- The Chairman of the OSCE Permanent Council, Ambassador Bertrand de Crombrugghe, will tomorrow open a one-day media workshop for journalist from Kosovo and Serbia proper. The event is an initiative of...
Montenegro welcomed onto OSCE Permanent Council as 56th participating State
Publishing date: 22 June 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization
VIENNA, 22 June 2006- Newly independent Montenegro today became the 56th State to take its seat as an independent country at the OSCE Permanent Council, the Organization's main negotiating and decision-taking body. The last state to join was Andorra...