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OSCE hosts trial monitoring conference in Tirana
Publishing date: 21 November 2002
Content type: Press release
What we do: Human rights
TIRANA, 21 November 2002- A regional discussion on the monitoring of criminal trials brought legal personnel from the six OSCE field missions across south-eastern Europe together in Tirana this week...
OSCE Mission launches award for best education coverage in BiH
Publishing date: 21 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization, Media freedom and development
SARAJEVO, 20 November 2002- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina today launched an award scheme for exemplary journalistic coverage of education issues. The winners of the prizes, totalling 3.000 KM, will be announced in March 2003...
OSCE Mission Head presents report on Croatia's international commitments
Publishing date: 19 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
ZAGREB, 19 November 2002- A report on Croatia's fulfilment of its international commitments was outlined to the media today by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Croatia, Ambassador Peter Semneby. The 30-page report details progress in...
Temporary Media Commissioner of Kosovo sanctions two dailies
Publishing date: 19 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 19 November 2002- Today the TMC dismissed Bota Sot's belated appeal against the sanction of 17,500 Euro, following the ruling of the Media Hearing Board (MHB) of 3 September 2002 in the cases of...
Kosovo's Media Appeals Board fines Bota Sot daily
Publishing date: 19 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 19 November 2002- Kosovo Albanian daily Bota Sot was fined 8,000 euros for violating Sections 6.2 and 3.1 of the Temporary Code of Conduct of the Print Media in Kosovo in the cases brought by Baton Haxhiu and Blerim Shala...
Exhibition "United Europe Against Slavery" opens in Yerevan
Publishing date: 18 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
YEREVAN, 18 November 2002- The exhibition United Europe Against Slavery, which opens today at the Moskva Cinema Theater in Yerevan, is a landmark event to raise public awareness on human trafficking issues...
OSCE Presence in Albania welcomes amendments to law on radio and TV
Publishing date: 11 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Media freedom and development
TIRANA, 11 November 2002- The OSCE Presence in Albania welcomed the unanimous adoption of amendments to the "Law on Public and Private Radio and Television in the Republic of Albania" by the Parliament. The amendments of last...