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Relation between children’s rights and media, hate speech and hate crime focus of OSCE-supported regional conference on safeguarding human rights in Western Balkans
Publishing date: 24 November 2017
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro
The responsibility of others in protecting children’s physical, moral and mental development, as well as children’s upbringing to guard them against the harmful media and internet content s was the focus of the first day of the two-day Western Balkans Regional Conference – Protect and Respect – Safeguarding Human Rights. The Conference is organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, in partnership with Agency for Electronic Media and Office for the Protection of Human Rights of Montenegro, on 23 and 24 November 2017 in Podgorica.
OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports establishing of priorities for Youth Action Plan 2018
Publishing date: 20 November 2017
Developing a draft Youth Action Plan for 2018 was the focus of a workshop that was hosted by the Directorate for Youth of the Montenegrin Ministry of Sports and supported by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro on 16-17 November 2017 in Petrovac.
OSCE Mission to Montenegro assists in providing new homes for displaced vulnerable families
Publishing date: 16 November 2017
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues
A ceremony in Podgorica on 15 November 2017 saw 120 displaced vulnerable families who had been living in a container settlement in the Konik Camp presented with keys to new homes financed by the Regional Housing Programme and supported by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro.
OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports a one-day workshop on hate crime for university students
Publishing date: 15 November 2017
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro
What we do: Youth, Tolerance and non-discrimination
Raising awareness about hate crimes among students was the focus of a one-day workshop for students from the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Montenegro that organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro in co-operation with the University and held on 14 November 2017.
Montenegro and OSCE have strong working partnership, says Austria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Linhart
Publishing date: 14 November 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Montenegro
PODGORICA, 14 November 2017 – Austria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Linhart, representing the 2017 OSCE Chairmanship, visited Montenegro today, stressing the importance of close co-operation and strategic partnership between the country’s authorities and the OSCE Mission to Montenegro...
OSCE Missions to Montenegro and Skopje support bilateral protocol on fighting human trafficking
Publishing date: 7 November 2017
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro, together with the OSCE Mission to Skopje, organized a first working meeting between the institutions of Montenegro and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in charge of drafting a protocol on co-operation between the two countries in the fight against human trafficking. The meeting was held from 30 October to 1 November 2017 in Skopje...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports call for proposals by Regional Youth Co-operation Office of the Western Balkans on regional reconciliation projects
Publishing date: 6 November 2017
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro supported the local branch of the Regional Youth Co-operation Office of the Western Balkans (RYCO) on 1 November 2017 in bringing together representatives from more than 40 NGOs at the premises of the Youth Centre in Podgorica...