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OSCE Mission supports job creation in Serbia's Sumadija district

Publishing date: 26 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
BELGRADE, 26 November 2003- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro today launched a programme to train 60 entrepreneurs and managers from the Sumadija district in order to assist the process of economic revitalization and job creation in...

OSCE and RSF urge decriminalization of libel

Publishing date: 25 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development
PARIS, 25 November 2003- Criminal libel and insult laws have become a major impediment to press freedom in many OSCE states, warned the Organization's Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, and Reporters sans frontieres. "Such...

Transparency of oil revenues holds the key to industrial success, Almaty seminar hears

Publishing date: 24 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Democratization
ALMATY, 24 November 2003- Participants at a roundtable in Kazakhstan, co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Almaty, discussed the importance of transparency of contracts in the taxation of oil operations, the country's biggest revenue service. The...

OSCE Moldova Mission promotes responsible reporting on human trafficking

Publishing date: 24 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Media freedom and development
CHISINAU, 24 November 2003- With the aim of promoting reliable, responsible and sensitive media coverage of trafficking issues, the OSCE's Moldova Mission is holding a four-day workshop for journalists, with intensive training sections on...

OSCE PA President calls for peaceful solution to political crisis in Georgia

Publishing date: 23 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections
TBILISI, 23 November 2003- The President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Bruce George, currently in Tbilisi as Special Co-ordinator of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office for the observation of the Georgian parliamentary elections, appeals to all...

OSCE seminar in Montenegro discusses professional standards of journalism

Publishing date: 21 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Media freedom and development
PODGORICA, 21 November 2003- The OSCE Office in Podgorica and the Self-Regulatory Body of the Journalists of Montenegro organized a seminar aimed at bringing the Code of Conduct for Montenegrin Journalists to life...

OSCE Office holds first Congress of women entrepreneurs in Baku

Publishing date: 21 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
BAKU, 21 November 2003- The improvement of conditions for women to start and run a business and their active participation in the economic life of Azerbaijan are being discussed at a three-day congress which opened today in Baku...