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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...

OSCE/ODIHR opens observation mission to monitor Slovak elections

Publishing date: 22 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
BRATISLAVA, 23 August 2002- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has established an election observation mission to monitor the elections to the National Council of the Slovak Republic scheduled for 20 and 21 September...

Training programme prepares over 3,500 police officers for Macedonian parliamentary elections

Publishing date: 16 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Human rights, Elections, Policing
SKOPJE, 16 August, 2002- More than 3,500 police officers have completed a training course on how to ensure security in line with international policing practices during the forthcoming parliamentary elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of...

OSCE's human rights office concerned about broadening of prosecutors' powers in Kazakhstan

Publishing date: 16 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
WARSAW, 16 August 2002- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) expressed its concern about a new law broadening the powers of the Prosecutor's Office in Kazakhstan. The law was passed by Parliament...

OSCE Mission finds repeated elections in FRY were generally up to standard

Publishing date: 12 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, 12 August 2002- The OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) finds that the municipal elections in Bujanovac, partially repeated yesterday, and the run-off in the Presevo mayoral elections held on 11 August were generally...

OSCE/ODIHR presents assessment of Montenegrin electoral legislation

Publishing date: 9 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
PODGORICA, 9 August 2002- The OSCE Office in Montenegro today delivered to the Montenegrin Parliament and parliamentary party representatives an assessment by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on the...