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In Focus: Memories of our work at the Office of the High Commissioner on National Minorities in recent years

Gytis Blaževičius and Elisabeth Regine Myrland of Natur og Ungdom, during the 11th Max van der Stoel Award ceremony, 6 November 2024, The Hague.
© OSCE/Arnaud Roelofsz | Photo details
Youth from diverse communities, including Sàmi youth, demand wind power turbines on the Fosen Peninsula are removed, in line with a Supreme Court ruling from 2021 that the turbines violate the human rights of the Sàmi, during protests organized by Natur og Ungdom, Oslo, February and March 2023.
© OSCE/Natur og Ungdom | Photo details
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Christophe Kamp at a meeting with Myroslav Biletskyi, Head of Zakarpattia Oblast Military Administration, Uzhhorod, 10 April 2025.
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Group of people smiling, standing on a staircase with ornate railings in a well-lit interior.
Group of people smiling, standing on a staircase with ornate railings in a well-lit interior.
Participants at an expert roundtable discussion on how emerging technologies are shaping policing practices in multi-ethnic societies, jointly organized by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities and the OSCE Transnational Threats Department’s Strategic Police Matters Unit (TNTD/SPMU), The Hague, 15 May 2025.
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OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Christophe Kamp (left) is shown around a pilot school for multilingual education, #8 “Gorkiy”, by Director Barchinai Aidarova and Co-ordinator of Multilingual Education Venera Akybaeva in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, 21 May 2025.
© OSCE/Edin Elgsaether | Photo details
Seven people sitting in a row, engaged in conversation, wearing business attire in a meeting room.
Seven people sitting in a row, engaged in conversation, wearing business attire in a meeting room.
Participants at a training event on “Strengthening the rights and participation of national communities in the Chernivtsi region”, organized by the office of the HCNM in co-operation with Ukraine’s State Service for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience, in Chernivtsi, 25 and 26 September 2025.
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Group of people celebrating on a sunny beach, holding certificates with a scenic lake and mountains in the background.
Participants celebrate at the end of the Regional Expert School on Multilingual and Multicultural Education for Integration and Sustainable Development, which took place from 1 to 5 July 2019 in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan. The Expert School is organized by the office of the HCNM, in co-operation with the Education Ministry of Kyrgyzstan and UNICEF Kyrgyzstan, and with the support of the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek.
© OSCE/Michael Angermann | Photo details
Moldova’s civil servants discuss steps to implement the National Strategy for the Consolidation of Interethnic Relations 2017-2027 at an induction training course organized by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities and the Bureau for Interethnic Relations of the Republic of Moldova, Vadul lui Vodă, Moldova, 24 May 2018.
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Students participate in the first Olympiad on multilingualism in Central Asia that specifically focuses on the mother tongues of the region, State and official languages, as well as foreign languages, Kazakhstan, 4 to 6 May 2017. Organized by Karaganda State University, in co-operation with the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities under its Central Asia Education Programme, the Olympiad attracted 102 students from 25 universities in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
© OSCE/Igor Khlebnikov | Photo details
A person in a coat beside an award certificate with blue border and signatures.
The Max van der Stoel Award is presented every two years. The 2014 award went to the non-governmental organization Spravedlivost from Kyrgyzstan, The Hague, 2 October 2014.
© OSCE/Arnaud Roelofsz | Photo details
A painting by 13 year-old Nastya Ibragimova from Kyzyl-Kiya in southern Kyrgyzstan entered in an HCNM-supported drawing competition to promote multicultural education launched in Osh, April 2008.
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Date Date:
11 March 2025
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