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Head of OSCE Mission concerned with ethnic segregation of students in Zepce

Publishing date: 1 September 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization
SARAJEVO, 1 September 2003- Ambassador Robert M. Beecroft, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, has expressed his concern about the situation in the municipality of Zepce, where he thinks that the politics of segregation is...

OSCE Media Representative and Council of Europe call on Russia to reconsider legislation on libel

Publishing date: 29 August 2003
Content type: Press statement
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Democratization, Media freedom and development, Media laws, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 29 August 2003- Freimut Duve, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, and Walter Schwimmer, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, today made the following joint statement regarding the recent sentencing of Russian journalist...

OSCE media watchdog expresses concern to Ivanov over Russian journalist jailed for libel

Publishing date: 27 August 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, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 27 August 2003- OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, has written to the Russian Foreign Minister raising the case of a prominent Russian journalist who was sentenced to one year in a labour camp for alleged libel...

OSCE Media Freedom Representative calls off visit to Minsk

Publishing date: 26 August 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development, Media laws
VIENNA, 26 August 2003- The OSCE's media watchdog, Freimut Duve, has been forced to cancel a visit to Belarus, planned for 1 and 2 September, because the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not given him and his senior adviser visas...

OSCE Mission helps train Armenian judges in new Criminal Code

Publishing date: 25 August 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
YEREVAN, 25 August 2003- Judges from all levels of the Armenian court system have been given training, jointly organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan, to improve their understanding of the new Criminal Code, which came into force on 1 August...

OSCE Office supports project on local democracy in Belarus

Publishing date: 25 August 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Democratization
MINSK, 25 August 2003- A delegation of six representatives from Belarusian local authorities today began a study trip to Lithuania. The five-day trip is a part of an OSCE Office in Minsk project on Local Democracy and Assistance to Local...

High time to put an end to segregation in Bosnia and Herzegovina schools

Publishing date: 17 August 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization
SARAJEVO, 17 August 2003- Representatives from the Federation, the Republika Srpska, the Cantons and Brcko District have worked intensively since August 2002, with the support of international community experts, to develop and implement...