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Provisional Election Commission extends deadline for independent candidates for November elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 27 June 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 27 June 2000- The Provisional Election Commission (PEC) decided to extend to...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office speaks out against torture
Publishing date: 26 June 2000
Content type: Press release
What we do: Human rights
Vienna, 26 June 2000- \"Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment constitute an attempt to destroy a fellow human being physically and mentally...\"
OSCE and UNHCR concerned by lists designed to discourage return
Publishing date: 23 June 2000
ZAGREB, 23 June 2000- The OSCE Mission to Croatia and UNHCR are concerned about the recent appearance of unsigned lists of persons of Serb ethnicity...
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina opens Political Resource Center in Ljubuski
Publishing date: 23 June 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization
SARAJEVO, 23 June 2000-- Ambassador Robert Barry, Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Robert Patrick Jacobs, USAID Mission\'s Deputy...
Provisional Election Commission removes mandates of five elected Bosnian councilors for violation of PEC Rule 7.16
Publishing date: 23 June 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 23 June 2000-- The Provisional Election Commission (PEC) has removed the mandates of five councilors...
OSCE condemns all attacks on journalists in Kosovo
Publishing date: 23 June 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
Pristina, 23 June 2000-- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo condemns the shooting of a Serbian journalist in downtown Pristina earlier this week. The attack was a further example of...
Rules established for registration of domestic election observers in Kosovo
Publishing date: 23 June 2000
PRISTINA, 23 June 2000-- In order to have credible municipal elections, it is essential that observers be present at all polling sites and counting centres...