News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje supports anti-trafficking training targeting legal professionals
Publishing date: 5 June 2003
SKOPJE, 5 June 2003- A second group of about 70 prosecutors and investigative judges will participate in a two-day seminar in Struga on 6 and 7 June. The focus of the event will be on the strengthening of prosecutions and fair trials...
OSCE Mission to Skopje launches public awareness campaign on decentralization
Publishing date: 4 June 2003
SKOPJE, 4 June 2003- The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje and the local Roma non-governmental organization, ARKA, will organize a series of information seminars to promote the new law on Local Self-Government and a better understanding...
OSCE Mission awards media prize to four Bosnia and Herzegovina journalists
Publishing date: 3 June 2003
SARAJEVO, 3 June 2003- Four journalists today received the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina media award, for their outstanding coverage of education issues. The media awards were set up to encourage journalists in Bosnia and Herzegovina...
OSCE Mission supports reform of local self-government
Publishing date: 3 June 2003
BELGRADE, 3 June 2003- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro today held a co-ordination meeting on local self-government reform in Serbia. All participants at the meeting agreed on the need to implement the law on local self-government...
OSCE media watchdog questions suspension of independent Belarusian newspapers
Publishing date: 30 May 2003
VIENNA, 30 May 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, has asked Belarus Foreign Minister for urgent clarification regarding the suspension of publication of the independent newspapers Belaruskaya Delovaya Gazeta...
OSCE media watchdog concerned about ownership deregulation in USA
Publishing date: 29 May 2003
VIENNA, 29 May 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, expressed concern today over the effect that media deregulation in the USA, the most symbolically important country for the culture of press freedom...
OSCE PA Working Group on Belarus Visits Minsk and Gomel
Publishing date: 29 May 2003
MINSK, 28 May 2003- Three members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Working Group on Belarus, Ms. Uta Zapf (Germany), the Chair of the Group, Mr. Urban Ahlin (Sweden), and Lord Ponsonby (United Kingdom) visited Gomel and Minsk...