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OSCE welcomes latest decision on media law in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 16 March 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Media freedom and development
ALMATY, 16 March 2001-- The OSCE Centre in Almaty, Kazakhstan, welcomes the decision adopted by the Mazhilis (Lower House) of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan to return for further elaboration amendments to the draft law on mass media
OSCE sponsors training for BiH government spokespersons
Publishing date: 15 March 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization, Media freedom and development
SARAJEVO, 15 March 2001- The OSCE Mission to BiH completed spokesperson training for BiH ministry staff...
OSCE steps up efforts to promote freedom of expression
Publishing date: 14 March 2001
Content type: Press release
VIENNA, 14 March 2001- Freedom of expression, one of the basic tenets of the OSCE, was in the spotlight of a special OSCE meeting which closed yesterday....
Kosovo Central Election Commission re-established
Publishing date: 9 March 2001
PRISTINA, 9 March 2001-- The body responsible for elections in Kosovo, the Central Election Commission (CEC), has been reconstituted...
Kosovo human rights workshop focuses on role of Ombudsperson
Publishing date: 2 March 2001
PRISTINA, 2 March 2001-- A workshop that aimed to inform NGOs on the work of the Ombudsperson Institution has been held in Prishtinë/Pristina. It was organized by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)...
Free media conference opens in Zagreb
Publishing date: 1 March 2001
Content type: Press release
What we do: Media freedom and development
ZAGREB, 1 March 2001-- The President of Croatia, Stjepan Mesic, called on media in South-Eastern Europe to be free of politics and said journalists should work to rehabilitate the "partly compromised" profession...
Attack on Croatian journalists condemned
Publishing date: 1 March 2001
Content type: Press release
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
ZAGREB, 1 March 2001-- Participants in the OSCE-Council of Europe conference on 'Free Media in South-Eastern Europe' in Zagreb released the following statement upon learning of an attack on two Croatian journalists: