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OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid addresses the conference marking the institution’s 30th anniversary at the Peace Palace, The Hague, 24 October 2023.

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From left: Theresa Segovia, Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Vida Montvydaite, Director of the Department of National Minorities under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania; Brankica Janković, Commissioner for Protection of Equality of the Republic of Serbia; Petra Roter, President of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, Council of Europe; and Iryna Ulasiuk, Head of Section/Senior Adviser, OSCE HCNM, discuss the effective participation of national minorities in social and economic life: practical implications and good practices as part of the institution’s 30th anniversary conference at the Peace Palace, The Hague, 24 October 2023.

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From left: William Romans, Head of Operations, Dispute Resolution, World Bank Accountability Mechanism; Andreea Cârstocea, Senior Researcher, Head of the Equality and Inclusion Cluster, European Centre for Minority Issues; Jennifer Jackson-Preece, Associate Professor of Nationalism, European Institute & Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science; Fernand de Varennes, Former UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues, and Adjunct Professor at the National University of Ireland-Galway and Visiting Professor at the Université Catholique de Lyon; Jennifer Croft, City Ombudsman at the City of Portland; and Elzbieta Kuzborska-Pacha, Senior Legal Adviser, OSCE HCNM present the HCNM’s latest publication, the Recommendations on the Effective Participation of National Minorities in Social and Economic Life, as part of the institution’s 30th anniversary conference at the Peace Palace, The Hague, 24 October 2023.

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From left: Former High Commissioners Knut Vollebæk, Astrid Thors and Lamberto Zannier and current High Commissioner Kairat Abdrakhmanov discuss the work of the institution of the High Commissioner on National Minorities and how they carried out their mandate, as part of the institution’s 30th anniversary conference at the Peace Palace, The Hague, 24 October 2023.

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Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice, U.S. Department of State Desirée Cormier Smith addresses the conference marking the institution’s 30th anniversary at the Peace Palace, The Hague, 24 October 2023.

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UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ilze Brands Kehris delivers the keynote address to the conference marking the institution’s 30th anniversary at the Peace Palace, The Hague, 24 October 2023.

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OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Foreign Minister of North Macedonia Bujar Osmani addresses the conference marking the institution’s 30th anniversary at the Peace Palace, The Hague, 24 October 2023.

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OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Kairat Abdrakhmanov opens the conference marking the institution’s 30th anniversary at the Peace Palace, The Hague, 24 October 2023.

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30th Anniversary: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities

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Photographs from the conference marking the 30th anniversary of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, held at the Peace Palace, The Hague, 24 October 2023. Press release: www.osce.org/hcnm/556398

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International Forum titled: "Youth Rights: Possibilities and Mechanisms of Protection", 23 October, Tashkent

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(left-right) H.E. Raimundas Karoblis, Ambassador of the European Union to Tajikistan; Colonel-General Rajabali Rahmonali, the Commander of the Border Troops of Tajikistan and Catherine Fearon, the Deputy Director of the OSCE Secretariat’s Conflict Prevention Centre pose for a photo at the handover ceremony of ambulance vehicles and technical equipment to Tajikistan’s Border Troops, Dushanbe, 24 October 2023.

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Participants of the first in-person meeting of the OSCE Networks for women professionals on P/CVERLT in Vienna.