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OSCE/ODIHR starts observation of presidential elections in Serbia

Publishing date: 2 September 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
BELGRADE, 2 September 2002- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has established an election observation mission to monitor the presidential election scheduled for 29 September in the Republic of Serbia. The mission...

OSCE trains trainers on women's rights in Armenia

Publishing date: 2 September 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Human rights
YEREVAN, 2 September 2002- An OSCE training session on women's rights brought together 22 young women from all 11 marzes (regions in Armenia) representing a wide spectrum of society. Representatives of local authorities, academics, teachers...

OSCE/ODIHR dismisses calls for boycott of Montenegrin elections

Publishing date: 30 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Elections
WARSAW, 30 August 2002- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today dismissed calls by some political parties for a boycott of the parliamentary elections in Montenegro scheduled for 6 October...

OSCE condemns violent attack on journalist in Kazakhstan

Publishing date: 30 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
WARSAW/VIENNA, 30 August 2002- The two OSCE institutions dealing with human rights and media freedom today jointly condemned the violent attack on Sergei Duvanov, a journalist and human rights defender who was assaulted and severely injured...

Finnish MP Kiljunen to lead OSCE observation of Macedonian parliamentary elections

Publishing date: 29 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Elections
COPENHAGEN, 29 August 2002- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Portuguese Foreign Minister Antonio Martins da Cruz, has appointed the Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Kimmo Kiljunen, MP (Finland), to act as his Special...

Largest pan-European human rights conference convenes in Warsaw

Publishing date: 28 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Human rights, Elections
WARSAW, 28 August 2002- More than 500 government representatives, international experts and human rights activists will gather in Warsaw from 9 to 19 September to attend Europe's largest human rights and democratization conference. The...

Bujanovac elections conducted in accordance with international standards and Serbian election laws

Publishing date: 26 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Elections
BELGRADE, 26 August 2002- The OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has concluded that the second partially repeated elections in Bujanovac on 25 August were generally conducted in accordance with international standards...