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OSCE Chair appoints three Personal Representatives to promote tolerance and non-discrimination

Publishing date: 23 December 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues
SOFIA, 23 December, 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office Solomon Passy has appointed three people as his Personal Representatives in the Organization's campaign to promote greater tolerance and combat racism, xenophobia and discrimination in its...

OSCE Almaty Centre promotes equal opportunities for women in Kazakhstani politics

Publishing date: 21 December 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
ALMATY, 21 December 2004- With support from the OSCE Centre, women's NGOs of Kazakhstan are developing a strategy for working towards equal opportunities for women and men in politics. Barriers which hinder women's full and active participation in the...

OSCE trains Kazakhstan's police on human rights

Publishing date: 20 December 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
ALMATY, 20 December 2004- Human rights and democratic policing was the theme of a three-day training programme held by the OSCE in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, last week. Developing skills to assist citizens in a professional manner, in line with...

OSCE Mission issues statement on broadcast media in Kosovo

Publishing date: 17 December 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 17 December 2004- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo, as Pillar III of the UN Mission in Kosovo, today issued the following statement: "Prior to and during the March riots in Kosovo...

OSCE Centre organizes workshop in Tashkent to discuss ways of fighting corruption

Publishing date: 17 December 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
TASHKENT, 17 December 2004- National anti-corruption legislation, strengthening good governance and the rule of law and promoting the UN Convention against Corruption are the focus of a workshop taking place today in Tashkent. The event...

OSCE Mission issues report on new criminal procedure code of Bosnian and Herzegovina courts

Publishing date: 17 December 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
SARAJEVO, 17 December 2004- A report on the implementation of the new criminal procedure code in the courts of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) was presented today by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Prepared by...

Media freedom Internet "cookbook" presented by OSCE's Miklos Haraszti

Publishing date: 16 December 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media freedom on the internet
VIENNA, 16 December 2004- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, today presented a publication prepared by his Office which voices concern over limitations of access to the Internet and offers "recipes" on how to preserve the..