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OSCE Mission to Georgia awards ethnic Armenian students after exchange programme
Publishing date: 12 December 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: National minority issues
TBILISI, 12 December 2008- Sixteen ethnic Armenian students from the Javakheti region of Georgia received certificates today on completion of a student exchange programme organized by OSCE Mission, the Education Ministry and the Union of Youth Centres...
OSCE report shows no significant differences in punishments and trial outcomes among communities in Kosovo courts
Publishing date: 4 December 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: National minority issues, Rule of law
PRISHTINE/PRISTINA, 4 December 2008- The OSCE Mission issued a report today comparing punishments and trial outcomes in cases involving Kosovo Albanian defendants and defendants from other communities.
OSCE launches channel on YouTube
Publishing date: 27 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Economic activities, Border management, Environmental activities, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Education, Elections, Countering terrorism, Gender equality, Media freedom and development, National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector, Roma and Sinti, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
VIENNA, 27 November 2008- The OSCE today launched its own channel on the popular video-sharing website YouTube...
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...
Model OSCE conference held in Armenia
Publishing date: 2 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
YEREVAN, 2 November 2008- Labour migration, educational and cultural rights of national minorities, protection of investigative journalism and lack of tolerance are among the problems highlighted at the Model OSCE Conference in Tsaghkadzor this weekend.
OSCE sends experts to Georgia to assess human rights and minority situation in areas affected by conflict
Publishing date: 10 October 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues
WARSAW/THE HAGUE, 10 October 2008- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities will send an expert team to Georgia to assess the human rights and minority situation in the areas...
Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia to visit Priboj and Prijepolje
Publishing date: 7 October 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
BELGRADE, 7 October 2008- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Hans Ola Urstad, will visit southwestern Serbia on 7 and 8 October...