News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre in Tashkent opens Internet Café for Journalists
Publishing date: 16 December 2003
TASHKENT, 16 December 2003- An OSCE-sponsored Internet Café for Journalists has opened new possibilities for Uzbekistan's working media who need access to the up-to-date global information network...
OSCE Almaty roundtable to focus on problem of juvenile delinquency
Publishing date: 12 December 2003
ALMATY, 12 December 2003- Discussion of the legal status of under-aged offenders who are not criminally liable due to their youth will bring together Kazakhstan's human rights experts at a roundtable next week. In criminological terminology...
Outgoing OSCE media watchdog reports to participating States about deteriorating press freedom
Publishing date: 11 December 2003
VIENNA, 11 December 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, today strongly criticised a deterioration in media freedom in many participating States in his final statement to the Permanent Council before leaving office...
OSCE human rights chief warns against use of "war on terrorism" to justify repression
Publishing date: 10 December 2003
LONDON/WARSAW, 10 December 2003- On International Human Rights Day, the OSCE human rights chief, Ambassador Christian Strohal, has warned that the "war on terrorism" was being used in some countries as an excuse to suppress legitimate...
Outgoing OSCE Media Representative to criticize participating States over press freedom in final report
Publishing date: 9 December 2003
VIENNA, 9 December 2003- After six years in office, Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, will on Thursday, 11 December, give his last official report to the Organization's 55-nation Permanent Council...
OSCE Belgrade Mission Head calls for a Human Rights culture
Publishing date: 9 December 2003
BELGRADE, 9 December 2003- South-eastern European states should live up to the human rights norms to which they are committed to, according to the Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, Ambassador Maurizio Massari. In an article to...
OSCE Mission facilitates information sharing between broadcasting agencies of Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 9 December 2003
BELGRADE/PODGORICA, 9 December 2003- The improvement of regional co-operation and information exchange between broadcasting agencies in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) was the goal of a series of intensive OSCE-organized workshops...