Event Archive

The purpose of this training session is to deepen field staff's knowledge of hate crimes and other forms of intolerance and discrimination, including issues relating to freedom of religion or belief.

This training for the judiciary of Kazakhstan will focus on implementation of all three pillars of the Aarhus Convention in the country.

OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Knut Vollebaek, will travel to the Russian Federation in order to examine the educational situation of ethnic Ukrainians there.

Head of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, Ambassador Andrew Tesoriere, will meet with heads of Talas oblast administration, Talas city administration, the local government council, as well as local media and heads of NGOs.

To help broaden public discussion on the merits and implications of proposed constitutional changes and amendments, the OSCE Office in Baku is supporting public forums in Baku, Ganja, Lenkoran and Shaki.

The event will bring together representatives of Armenian and Russian academia to discuss the challenges of state policies in overcoming the consequences of the global financial crisis.

An exhibition of work by the artist Valeriu Buev will be opened on Friday 6 March 2009 at 17:00 hours. The works will be on display until 30 March 2009.

The meeting is aimed at further improving the training and recruitment practices that have a direct impact on the proper functioning of the OSCE.

This presentation will introduce Polish-language teaching tools to help teenagers understand the sources of anti-Semitism in a wider international context.

To help broaden public discussion on the merits and implications of proposed constitutional changes and amendments, the OSCE Office in Baku is supporting public forums in Baku, Ganja, Lenkoran and Shaki.

The OSCE Centre is supporting the production of a documentary video on promoting gender equality, which will be presented at the fifth Kazakhstan Women's Forum on 5-6 March in Astana.

This meeting, the first of its kind within the OSCE, focuses on the exclusion, marginalization and denial of the rights of Christian communities in the OSCE area (also focusing on intolerance and discrimination against other religions).

As part of the OSCE commitments on gender issues, the Centre in Bishkek is supporting initiatives by the Kyrgyz Parliament to discuss the draft of law on marriage age norms and gender aspects.

Following the provisions of the Vienna Document 1999, the Forum for Security Co-operation will organize the 19th Annual Implementation Assessment Meeting (AIAM) in March 2009.

The aim of these information sessions is to brief regional executive authorities and constituency election commissions on the recently amended national Electoral Code on non-interference.