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Statement by OSCE Minorities Commissioner on Slovakia's State Language Act
Publishing date: 3 September 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: National minority issues
THE HAGUE, 03 September 2009- The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM), Knut Vollebaek, released the following statement today:
OSCE minorities commissioner discusses amendments to Slovakia's language law
Publishing date: 22 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
THE HAGUE, 22 July 2009- The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Knut Vollebaek, received delegations from Slovakia (on 21 July) and Hungary (on 22 July) to discuss the amendments to the "Law on the State Language of the Slovak Republic"...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities deeply concerned by recent developments in Abkhazia
Publishing date: 14 April 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: National minority issues
THE HAGUE, 14 April 2009- The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Knut Vollebaek, called for an end to pressure put on the Georgian population in Abkhazia in a statement released today...
OSCE's human rights office, minority commissioner express concern over violence targeting Roma
Publishing date: 7 April 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Roma and Sinti
WARSAW/THE HAGUE, 7 April 2009- Ahead of International Roma Day, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and High Commissioner on National Minorities expressed concern over continuing discriminatory treatment and exclusion of Roma...
OSCE Minorities Commissioner calls for wider use of multilingual education in Central Asia
Publishing date: 3 April 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
SAMARKAND, 3 April 2009- The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM), Knut Vollebaek, urged the countries of Central Asia today to expand the use of bilingual and multilingual education...
Ethnic segregation in education must be prevented, OSCE Minorities Commissioner urges policymakers in Skopje
Publishing date: 30 January 2009
Content type: Press release
SKOPJE, 30 January 2009- The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM), Knut Vollebaek, today warned the authorities in Skopje about the negative consequences that increasingly segregated education will have on the society...
OSCE national minorities Commissioner, Latvian Naturalization Board to hold conference on citizenship
Publishing date: 19 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: National minority issues
THE HAGUE, 19 November 2008- A conference organized by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities and the Naturalization Board of the Republic of Latvia on the institution of citizenship and its development and perspectives in the Baltic...