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OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities visits Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 22 April 2003
Content type: Press release
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues
BISHKEK, 22 April 2003- On an official visit to Kyrgyzstan, the OSCE's High Commissioner on National Minorities, Rolf Ekeus, said that in multi-ethnic societies politics should be oriented towards integration rather than towards assimilation or...
Head of OSCE Mission to Skopje issues joint statement
Publishing date: 21 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Conflict prevention and resolution
SKOPJE, 21 April 2003- Statement of the Head of the OSCE Spillover Monitoring Mission to Skopje, Ambassador Craig Jenness, supported by the EU Special Representative Alexis Brouhns, the United States Ambassador Lawrence Butler, and NATO...
OSCE invests in Bosnia and Herzegovina's future
Publishing date: 18 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization
SARAJEVO, 18 April 2003- A group of 45 young people have today concluded a one-year OSCE programme geared at training them for future leadership in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The training programme, entitled "Successor Generation Initiative" (SGI)...
OSCE meeting focuses on acute danger from nuclear waste in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 17 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
BISHKEK, 17 April 2003- A three-day international scientific meeting in Kyrgyzstan aims at assessing technical problems posed by radioactive waste dumps at Mailuu-Suu in the country's south, which threaten the whole region with radioactive...
OSCE Mission commends success in fighting workplace discrimination in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 17 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, National minority issues
SARAJEVO, 17 April 2003- Twenty-four employers from all over Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), who have successfully participated in OSCE's Fair Employment Project, are shortly to receive commendation certificates in Mostar, Travnik, Banja...
OSCE-funded study shows Croatian TV free from outside control, weak on minority issues
Publishing date: 16 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
ZAGREB, 16 April 2003- An OSCE-funded study on the Croatian State broadcaster HRT published in Zagreb today indicates that the station has managed to free itself from outside control, but still does not pay enough attention to issues such as...
OSCE, CoE welcome new draft law on education in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 16 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization
SARAJEVO, 16 April 2003- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the Council of Europe today welcomed the adoption of the draft State Framework Law on Primary and General Secondary Education by the Council of Ministers. "This...