News and press releases

DUSHANBE, 10 December 2001- The OSCE Mission to Tajikistan, in co-operation with the Tajik Government and the United Nation Tajikistan Office of Peace Building (UNTOP), held a series of events to mark the international Human Rights Day.

SARAJEVO, 10 December 2001-- Four aspiring young artists received yesterday the first prizes in the OSCE's Youth contest, My World- My Bosnia and Herzegovina. The prizes were awarded at a ceremony held at the National Theatre in Sarajevo.

PRISTINA, 10 December 2001-- A group of 60 jurists who are scheduled to take, later this month, the first Bar/Judicial exam organized in Kosovo in nearly ten years have completed a preparatory training course organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo.

Bucharest, 10 December 2001- On the occasion of United Nations Human Rights Day, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Mircea Geoana, has called on all OSCE participating States to firmly uphold their international human rights commitments...

PRISTINA, 6 December 2001- Initial steps have been taken to fill a gap in Kosovo's criminal justice system through the creation of a victim advocacy network that includes victim sensitive responses from both governmental and non-governmental actors...

TETOVO, 5 December 2001 (OSCE)-- Managers of electronic media in the town of Tetovo in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, have agreed to co-operate over a project to open a "media city desk"...

BUCHAREST, 4 December 2001- The OSCE Ministerial Council has adopted on the second day a broad-ranging document for comprehensive action by the 55 OSCE participating States in the global fight against terrorism...