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Temporary Media Commissioner implements Broadcast Code of Conduct
Publishing date: 15 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 15 September 2000- The Temporary Media Commissioner (TMC) has approved the Broadcast Code of Conduct, consistent with standard European democratic practice and as part of the licensing process for radio and television broadcasters...
Transitional period for new Ombudsmen law in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 14 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Human rights
SARAJEVO, 14 September 2000- The OSCE and OHR would like to take this opportunity to recall the transitional provisions of the Organic Law on the Federation Ombudsmen...
BiH Election Appeal Sub-Commission upholds PEC decisions on eight candidates
Publishing date: 12 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 12 September 2000- The Election Appeals Sub-Commission (EASC) is issuing six decisions today...
OSCE Permanent Council calls on FRY to release detainees
Publishing date: 7 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights, Policing
VIENNA, 7 September 2000- The 54-member OSCE Permanent Council called on the authorities of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) today to speed up legal procedures and to rapidly release from detention in Belgrade the two British OMIK members...
Parliamentary Assembly talks focus on OSCE and Belarus
Publishing date: 5 September 2000
COPENHAGEN, 5 September, 2000-- Mr. Adrian Severin, MP (Romania), President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, held a series of meetings and talks in Vienna...
Yugoslav election laws do not meet international standards
Publishing date: 31 August 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WARSAW, 31 August 2000- The laws governing the forthcoming elections in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia are not in line with international standards...
Belgrade refuses to grant entry visa to OSCE election experts
Publishing date: 22 August 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WARSAW, 21 August 2000- The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia refuses to grant entry visas to experts of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR)...