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OSCE Chairman-in-Office appoints Kimmo Kiljunen Special Envoy for Elections

Publishing date: 26 March 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Elections
HELSINKI, 26 March 2008- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva, appointed today Kimmo Kiljunen, a Finnish member of parliament, as his Special Envoy on election-related issues...

Latest amendments to Slovakia's draft Press Act an improvement but still fall short, says OSCE media freedom representative

Publishing date: 25 March 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws
VIENNA, 25 March 2008- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, welcomed today the Slovak Government's acceptance of one of his key proposals for its draft Press Act...

OSCE media freedom representative welcomes Irish government move to decriminalize libel

Publishing date: 19 March 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 19 March 2008- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, welcomed today a decision by the Irish Justice Minister, Brian Lenihan, to fully abolish criminal libel...

OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs issue statement on Nagorno-Karabakh

Publishing date: 19 March 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Minsk Group
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Rule of law
VIENNA, 19 March 2008- The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs issued the following statement today: "The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Yuri Merzlyakov for the Russian Federation, and Bernard Fassier for France, as well as Mike Carpenter...

Deadline for OSCE photo contest expires 1 April

Publishing date: 19 March 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
VIENNA, 19 March 2008- The deadline for submitting photographs for the 2008 photo contest under the theme "Waterways of life", announced by the Finnish OSCE Chairmanship, will expire 1 April.

OSCE trains Georgian government officials, journalists with focus on facilitating access to information

Publishing date: 18 March 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Media freedom and development
TBILISI, 18 March 2008- Fostering effective ties between government bodies and journalists and increasing access to official information are the focus of a two-day OSCE training seminar that started in Tbilisi today...

International rights bodies call on politicians to lead fight against intolerance and discrimination

Publishing date: 18 March 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Gender equality, National minority issues, Roma and Sinti, Tolerance and non-discrimination
WARSAW/STRASBOURG/VIENNA, 18 March 2008- In a joint statement issued on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on 21 March, three leading human rights agencies call on political leaders to assume...