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High-level conference marks 20 years of OSCE High Commissioner’s Hague Recommendations on education rights
Publishing date: 20 April 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
THE HAGUE, 20 April 2016- Education is in many ways the space where issues of equality, national identity and the concept of nationhood are being negotiated, said OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Astrid Thors today as she opened a high-level conference to mark 20 years of The Hague Recommendations Regarding the Education Rights of National Minorities...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities supports conference on education in multilingual and multicultural contexts in Central Asia
Publishing date: 31 March 2016
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities co-organized a conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on 28 to 29 March 2016 on education challenges in multilingual and multicultural contexts in Central Asia. The conference, organized with the French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IEFAC), UNICEF
High Commissioner on National Minorities visits Bosnia and Herzegovina and calls for quality inclusive education for all
Publishing date: 24 March 2016
Content type: News
The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Astrid Thors visited Bosnia and Herzegovina from 20 to 24 March 2016, focusing extensively on education matters, visiting schools and educational facilities, meeting with pupils, parents and teachers and witnessing efforts made to bridge divides and develop joint activities...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities discusses minority participation and education in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 1 December 2015
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
The participation of national minorities in public life and promoting their access to education were among the main topics of discussion during the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Astrid Thors’ visit to Kyrgyzstan from 24 to 26 November. In Bishkek, Thors exchanged views on a
Serbian Prime Minister inaugurates OSCE-supported multilingual university department in southern Serbia
Publishing date: 24 November 2015
Content type: News
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Education, National minority issues, Youth
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić officially inaugurated the permanent premises of the Bujanovac Department of the Subotica Faculty of Economics of the Novi Sad University on 17 November 2015, marking another milestone in a long-term OSCE project to promote multilingual and multi-ethnic
Youth from minority communities in Georgia increasingly interested in learning Georgian through multilingual education, OSCE HCNM-commissioned study concludes
Publishing date: 9 October 2015
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Education, National minority issues, Youth
Young people from ethnic minority communities in Georgia are increasingly interested in learning the Georgian language as a means to improve their socio-economic opportunities, the “Research Study on Multilingual Education in Georgia” commissioned by the OSCE High Commissioner on National
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities supports knowledge-sharing on multilingual education in South Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 30 September 2015
Content type: Press release
What we do: Education, National minority issues
SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan, 30 September 2015 – The benefits of multilingual education was the focus of a two-day conference co-organized by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Astrid Thors, which ended today in Shymkent, Kazakhstan. The conference brought together more than 500 participants from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan...