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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre holds conference on gender-related issues for students in Central Asia
Publishing date: 13 May 2004
DUSHANBE, 13 May 2004- Raising awareness of gender-related problems among students in Central Asia and preventing inequality in society is the aim of a conference that opened here today. Some 60 students from...
OSCE Envoy urges focus on dialogue and NGOs in Central Asia
Publishing date: 11 June 2003
VIENNA, 11 June 2003- Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, who is Personal Envoy of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office for Central Asia, on Wednesday stressed the importance of strengthening civil society and regional co-operation in helping...
OSCE conference discusses Tajik media legislation
Publishing date: 18 December 2002
DUSHANBE, 18 December 2002- "We need to improve our media legislation using the experiences of European and other countries", said Ibragim Usmanov, State Adviser to the President of Tajikistan, at an OSCE-organized...
Central Asian journalists adopt declaration on media freedom and corruption
Publishing date: 30 September 2002
TASHKENT, 30 September 2002- The media should be free to play their fundamental role as society's watchdog against corruption, journalists from five Central Asian states said in a final declaration adopted at the end of an OSCE media conference...
Fourth Central Asia Media Conference focuses on media freedom and corruption
Publishing date: 26 September 2002
TASHKENT, 26 September 2002- The media coverage of corruption has a "corrective function" in the newly emerging democracies and on their economies, a leading European media watchdog, Freimut Duve, told a conference of more than 100 media...
Environmental workshop for youth held in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 9 April 2002
DUSHANBE, 9 April 2002- Tajikistan's best civic education students were gathered in Dushanbe by the OSCE Mission to Tajikistan for a five-day environmental training workshop, marking the beginning of a one-year OSCE project devoted to...
OSCE releases Summary Report on Bishkek Conference on Security and Stability in Central Asia
Publishing date: 12 March 2002
VIENNA, 12 March 2002- The OSCE released today a Summary Report on the Bishkek International Conference on Security and Stability in Central Asia, held on 13 and 14 December 2001 in Kyrgyzstan. This conference was co-sponsored by...