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Michael Georg Link of Germany, newly-appointed Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), will take up his new function on 1 July 2014 for a three-year term.

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Schoolchildren outside the Bozidar Vukovic Podgoricanin Primary school in Podgorica, 27 November 2011.

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Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Ambassador Peter Burkhard receives an award from the Roma National Council in recognition of the important work done by the OSCE Mission to Serbia to promote greater inclusion of Roma and Sinti into mainstream society and improve their access to basic services like education, adequate housing and healthcare, Belgrade, 8 April 2014.

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Loé Lagrange, Office Coordinator from ADC Memorial Brussels speaking at the OSCE Expert Meeting on Police and Roma and Sinti: Current Challenges and Good Practices in Building Trust and Understanding, taking place on ODIHR premises in Warsaw, 8 April 2014.

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A young Roma man in Hejoszalonta, north-eastern Hungary, looks on as members of the Hungarian Police attend an anti-Roma demonstration called by the radical right-wing party, Jobbik, 2 April 2011.

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Roma community members get familiar on how to better use their social rights as part of an OSCE-supported project providing legal assistance for the Roma community, Skopje, 25 November 2013.

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Roma community members get familiar on how to better use their social rights as part of an OSCE-supported project providing legal assistance for the Roma community, Skopje, 25 November 2013.

Roma Women and Elections

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BiH is scheduled to hold General Elections in October 2014 at the state, entity and cantonal levels. Will Snjezana Mirkovic, Aldina Fafulovic, Indira Bajramovic and other Roma women and men be able to run for ceratin state-level positions? OSCE calls for the immediate implementation of the Sejdic and Finci vs. BiH decission by the European Court of Human Rights in 2009 and the removal of discriminatory Constitutional provisions. OSCE also calls for greater respect of the BiH Law on Gender Equality and for greater political participation of women from the grassroots to the highest political levels across the country. The film is released by the OSCE Mission to BiH within the Best Practices for Roma Integration in the Wstern Balkans program with support of the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.

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Lívia Járóka, a Member of the European Parliament discusses ways to address the lack of progress in Roma and Sinti inclusion at the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting in Vienna, 7 November.

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Lívia Járóka, the sole Roma Member of the European Parliament and the Vice-chair of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, speaking at an OSCE meeting on human rights, Vienna, 7 November 2013.

The Cause is Ours

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The film underlines the unique level of participation of Romani and Sinti women activists in the decision making process at the OSCE and the heightened dialogue between OSCE member states and Romani and Sinti women activists through the HDIM process.

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A video still from the short film on the Romani Women in the region of the OSCE.