News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission sponsors training courses on human rights and trafficking cases
Publishing date: 24 June 2004
SKOPJE, 24 June 2004- The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje will sponsor several training courses for legal professionals to help them ensure that human rights are respected during investigations and prosecutions of trafficking cases...
OSCE Media Representative concerned about deportation of journalist from Belarus
Publishing date: 23 June 2004
VIENNA, 23 June 2004- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, has expressed his serious concern about the decision on 21 June by the Belarusian security services, the KGB, to deport Mihail Padalyak, a journalist from the...
OSCE Mission calls for reform of domestic war crime procedures in Croatia
Publishing date: 22 June 2004
ZAGREB, 22 June 2004- The OSCE Mission to Croatia today issued two reports on war crime trials conducted in Croatian courts acknowledging recent improvements but concluding that additional reform is needed to provide for impartial domestic...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office calls for settlement and easing of tension in Moldova
Publishing date: 22 June 2004
CHISINAU, 22 June 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, urged the Moldovan and Transdniestrian leadership to speed up negotiations to make real progress in the Transdniestrian settlement process...
OSCE Mission, Serb Parliament announce winners of high school essay contest: "If I were Prime Minister"
Publishing date: 21 June 2004
BELGRADE, 21 June 2004- Three high school students were today awarded top prizes in the Serbian parliament for their entries in the "If I were Serbian Prime Minister" essay competition. The three students will have their essays published in Danas...
OSCE Mission and U.S. Embassy in Skopje hold workshop on countering human trafficking
Publishing date: 17 June 2004
SKOPJE, 17 June 2004- In an effort to enhance domestic capacity to investigate and prosecute human trafficking cases, the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje and the U.S. Embassy in Skopje today launched a three-day training workshop in Ohrid...
Registration of a Kosovo Albanian party open for review, OSCE Mission says
Publishing date: 17 June 2004
PRISTINA, 17 June 2004- The Democratic Alternative of Kosovo (ADK) has today completed registration requirements with the Political Party Registration Office of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo. A final decision...