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Former OSCE staff member gains top Canadian human rights award

Publishing date: 14 August 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Human rights
SARAJEVO, 14 August 2003- Canadian human rights lawyer, Georgette Gagnon, who served from 2001 to 2003 as Director of Human Rights for the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been honoured with the Walter Tarnopolsky Human Rights...

OSCE Mission in Kosovo strongly condemns killings in Peje/Pec

Publishing date: 14 August 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development, National minority issues
PRISTINA, 14 August 2003- The Acting Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo (OMiK) has condemned a shooting yesterday in the Peje/Pec municipality, which left two youths dead and several others seriously injured, in the strongest possible terms...

OSCE meeting tries to resolve NGO registration issues in Azerbaijan

Publishing date: 12 August 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Democratization
BAKU, 12 August 2003- The problems facing local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in registering with state authorities is the focus of a meeting which opened today in the Azeri capital, Baku. Through this meeting, which is the first in a...

OSCE Mission hails Bosnia and Herzegovina's new common core curriculum

Publishing date: 8 August 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization
SARAJEVO, 8 August 2003- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina warmly welcomed today's adoption of an agreement on a country wide common core curriculum, calling it a further step towards the reform of the country's education system. The...

OSCE Kosovo Mission to transfer election operations to local body

Publishing date: 8 August 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Elections
PRISTINA, 8 August 2003- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo (OMiK) will begin to transfer some of its operational responsibilities for elections to a permanent Secretariat of the Central Election Commission (CEC), while maintaining an advisory role within...

OSCE and Kyrgyzstan sign agreement on implementing first major police assistance programme in Central Asia

Publishing date: 7 August 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Countering terrorism, Policing
BISHKEK, 7 August 2003- The Kyrgyz Government has signed a key agreement today with the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, launching a comprehensive OSCE police assistance programme aimed at establishing community policing, improving the quality of criminal...

OSCE Mission welcomes steps towards administrative unification of schools in Herzegovina-Neretva

Publishing date: 6 August 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, National minority issues
SARAJEVO, 7 August, 2003- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina welcomes the issuance by the Minister of Education of Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of an instruction on administrative unification of the Mostar Old Gymnasium and the so-called 'two...