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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Experts discuss Uzbekistan's migration policy at OSCE Centre meeting
Publishing date: 14 September 2004
TASHKENT, 14 September 2004- Experts on migration in Uzbekistan today discussed the country's new approach to migration issues at a meeting organized by the OSCE Centre in Tashkent. The meeting focused on a draft Concept Paper on Migration Policy of...
OSCE Centre holds summer camp with focus on environmental education in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 18 August 2004
TASHKENT, 18 August 2004- A summer camp which helped promote environmental education in schools ended its work today in a mountainous area of Tashkent province. During the 12-day camp, children had a...
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...
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...
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...
Conference on mass media in Central Asia: present and future
Publishing date: 15 November 2000
DUSHANBE, 15 November 2000-- On 14-15 November 2000 more than 90 journalists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, along with OSCE media officers and media specialists, met in Dushanbe, Tajikistan for an international conference...