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OSCE workshop gives Tajik journalists tools to fight corruption

Publishing date: 23 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Democratization, Media freedom and development
DUSHANBE, 23 October 2003- More than 40 journalists from all regions of Tajikistan discussed practical and legal aspects of reporting on corruption at the first workshop held in the country devoted to the issue. The two-day workshop...

OSCE/ODIHR launches handbook on dealing with human rights complaints

Publishing date: 15 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
WARSAW, 15 October 2003- The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), one of Europe's leading human rights institutions, has released a handbook for OSCE field personnel dealing with human rights complaints. "The human...

OSCE Chair appoints parliamentarians to lead election observation in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Russia

Publishing date: 6 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Elections
COPENHAGEN, 6 October 2003- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, has appointed OSCE PA President Bruce George as his Special Co-ordinator to lead the upcoming OSCE Election Observation Missions in...

Parliamentarians agree to strengthen regional dialogue on socio-economic development

Publishing date: 4 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization
SARAJEVO, 4 October 2003- Over the last two days, parliamentarians from throughout south-eastern Europe gathered in Sarajevo to discuss common social and economic development goals, and how regional contact can assist in this endeavour. The inter...

OSCE PA Fall Meetings in Rome

Publishing date: 1 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 1 October 2003- From 9-11 October, in the Italian Parliament in Rome, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) will hold a Conference on Religious Freedom and a...

OSCE Mission in Skopje welcomes new law on Ombudsperson

Publishing date: 1 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, National minority issues
SKOPJE, 1 October 2003- Ambassador Craig Jenness, the Head of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje, welcomed the entry into force today of a new law strengthening the role of the Ombudsperson. "This important law is a key step forward...

Latvian human rights centre receives Van der Stoel prize 2003

Publishing date: 30 September 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, National minority issues
THE HAGUE, 30 September 2003- An international jury, led by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Rolf Ekéus, has decided to award the inaugural Van der Stoel Prize to the Latvian Centre for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies. The prize...