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Serbian Broadcasting Law amendments ought to be withdrawn, OSCE Mission argues in analytical report

Publishing date: 11 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Media freedom and development, Rule of law
BELGRADE, 11 August 2006- Ambassador Hans Ola Urstad, Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia today called on Serbian authorities to withdraw recently adopted Broadcasting Law Amendments, saying that some of them violate media freedom rights...

OSCE Chairman criticizes Kyrgyzstan for extraditions, calls on Russian authorities not to deport refugees to Uzbekistan

Publishing date: 10 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
BRUSSELS, 10 August 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, today criticized Kyrgyzstan for extraditing four refugees and one asylum-seeker, all Uzbek citizens, to Uzbekistan...

OSCE/ODIHR begins observation for Montenegrin parliamentary elections

Publishing date: 9 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Montenegro
What we do: Elections
WARSAW/PODGORICA, 9 August 2006- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights deployed an Election Observation Mission today to observe Montenegro's parliamentary elections on 10 September 2006...

OSCE Centre in Dushanbe promotes business skills among young people in Central Asia

Publishing date: 8 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Economic activities
KAYRAKKUM, Tajikistan, 8 August 2006- Young people are developing entrepreneurship and business leadership skills during an economic summer camp organized by the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe and run by Junior Achievement...

OSCE's human rights office facilitates discussion on international trends and local perspectives in criminal justice in Central Asia

Publishing date: 7 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Education, Rule of law
ALMATY, 7 August 2006- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today welcomed 25 criminal justice practitioners from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to a week-long Summer School...

OSCE supports public monitoring of pre-trial detention centres in Armenia

Publishing date: 7 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Rule of law
YEREVAN, 7 August 2006- Human rights NGOs today began monitoring the conditions in pre-trial detention centres as part of a project supported by the OSCE Office in Yerevan and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights...

OSCE Chairman deeply concerned at Belarusian court verdict against would-be election monitors

Publishing date: 4 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Elections, Rule of law
BRUSSELS, 4 August 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, today voiced deep concern at guilty verdicts and subsequent prison sentences handed to four Belarusians...