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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Regional Stability Pact Co-ordinator on Trafficking visits Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 28 July 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
SARAJEVO, 28 July 2000- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina hosted a visit of Dr Helga Konrad, the Regional Coordinator of the Stability Pact Task Force on Trafficking in Human Beings.
Freimut Duve accused by Belgrade government of being a "German agent"
Publishing date: 27 July 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 27 July 2000-- Freimut Duve, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, is dismayed by the sentencing of a Serbian journalist, Miroslav Filipovic, to seven years in prison on 26 July 2000 by the Nis military court.
Kosovo Temporary Media Commissioner orders "Dita" newspaper to suspend operations
Publishing date: 27 July 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 27 July 2000-- The Temporary Media Commissioner (TMC) has ordered the the Albanian-language newspaper \"Dita\" to suspend operations immediately following its failure to pay a fine imposed for violating the Print Regulation...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office expresses concern about recent action against human rights defenders in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 27 July 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
VIENNA, 27 July 2000-- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner, is worried by reports on the harassment of human rights activists in Kyrgyzstan.
Three new Political Party Service Centres to open in Kosovo
Publishing date: 26 July 2000
PRISTINA, 26 July 2000-- Three new Political Party Service Centres are due to open around Kosovo within the next fortnight. The first of the new centres will be officially...
Warning issued to Kosovo Serb radio station
Publishing date: 25 July 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 25 July 2000-- The Temporary Media Commissioner (TMC) has issued a warning to a Serb-language radio station for violating the Broadcast Media Regulation...
Roughly one million register but OSCE regrets Serb boycott
Publishing date: 24 July 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Elections
PRISTINA, 24 July 2000-- The combined Civil and Voter Registration process came to a successful end on July 19th last. In total, about one million Kosovars living in Kosovo registered during the three-month long operation.