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Report by the Chief Observer of the OCSE Observer Mission at two Russian checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian border, Ambassador György Varga. Presentation by the OSCE Secretary General, Ambassador Thomas Greminger, of the 2020 Unified Budget Proposal. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements (Russian Federation, Annex 1). Violation of the educational rights of national minorities in Latvia. Violation of freedom of peaceful assembly in the United States of America, Canada and some Member States of the European Union. Continuing restrictions on freedom of the media in the Russian Federation. General election in Spain, to be held on 10 November 2019 (Spain, Annex 2). Fifth Eastern Economic Forum, held from 4 to 6 September 2019 in Vladivostok, Russian Federation. Early parliamentary elections in San Marino, to be held on 8 December 2019. Local elections in Bulgaria, to be held on 27 October 2019.

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Academics, scholars, professionals, students and employees of the State Police and all law enforcement institutions and beyond are invited to submit papers, projects, and presentations: abstracts by 15 September 2019, full papers by 1 November 2019.

Op-Ed by the Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Bernd Borchardt, on the occasion of the third 'Youth Trail' organized by the Presence, an annual gathering of young people from around Western Balkans, supported by the Government of Slovakia as the current OSCE Chairmanship.

European Regional Forum on Education, Language and the Human Rights of Minorities, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, 6 May 2019.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) the right to education is being violated because of discrimination, which exists in schools in both entities. This report from the OSCE Mission to BiH (‘the Mission’) addresses the practice of ‘two schools under one roof’ in the Federation of BiH (FBiH) as the most visible (but by no means only) manifestation of discrimination in the education systems of the country.

After five years of implementation of the OSCE Mentor/Mentee Network Programme, the OSCE Gender Section decided to review main results achieved so far and deliberate on next steps. The objective of the programme is to develop and create the tools needed for establishing mentor/mentee networks across the OSCE region and support OSCE field operations and organizations to apply them.

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