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OSCE and RSF urge decriminalization of libel

Publishing date: 25 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development
PARIS, 25 November 2003- Criminal libel and insult laws have become a major impediment to press freedom in many OSCE states, warned the Organization's Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, and Reporters sans frontieres. "Such...

OSCE Chairman praises peaceful transition in Georgia, offers help

Publishing date: 24 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections
THE HAGUE, 24 November 2003- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Netherlands Foreign Minister de Hoop Scheffer, praised the people of Georgia on Monday for ensuring that the weekend change in the country's leadership was accomplished without violence...

OSCE PA President Bruce George meets acting President Burjanadze of Georgia

Publishing date: 24 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections
TBILISI, 24 November 2003- The President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Bruce George, met today in Tbilisi with the acting President of Georgia, Nino Burjanadze. Mr. George expressed his satisfaction that the constitutional and political...

Transparency of oil revenues holds the key to industrial success, Almaty seminar hears

Publishing date: 24 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Democratization
ALMATY, 24 November 2003- Participants at a roundtable in Kazakhstan, co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Almaty, discussed the importance of transparency of contracts in the taxation of oil operations, the country's biggest revenue service. The...

New awareness-raising campaign in Kosovo targets violence against women

Publishing date: 24 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
PRISTINA, 24 November 2003- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo is tomorrow launching a two-week awareness-raising campaign to highlight and urge action on the issue of violence against women...

OSCE PA President calls for peaceful solution to political crisis in Georgia

Publishing date: 23 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections
TBILISI, 23 November 2003- The President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Bruce George, currently in Tbilisi as Special Co-ordinator of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office for the observation of the Georgian parliamentary elections, appeals to all...

Chairman of OSCE and CoE calls for peaceful solution in Georgia

Publishing date: 22 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections
THE HAGUE, 22 November 2003- Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, in his capacity as both Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE and Chairman of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, today appealed...