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OSCE Mission awards media prize to four Bosnia and Herzegovina journalists
Publishing date: 3 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization, Media freedom and development
SARAJEVO, 3 June 2003- Four journalists today received the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina media award, for their outstanding coverage of education issues. The media awards were set up to encourage journalists in Bosnia and Herzegovina...
OSCE Mission supports reform of local self-government
Publishing date: 3 June 2003
BELGRADE, 3 June 2003- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro today held a co-ordination meeting on local self-government reform in Serbia. All participants at the meeting agreed on the need to implement the law on local self-government...
Head of OSCE Kosovo Mission: History is our enemy
Publishing date: 29 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
PRISTINA, 29 May 2003- Almost four years after the OSCE began its work in Kosovo, the environment remains one of rapid change but Kosovo has been firmly established on the international agenda of unfinished business, Ambassador Pascal Fieschi...
International observers condemn violence overshadowing Armenian parliamentary elections
Publishing date: 26 May 2003
Content type: Press release
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Elections, Media freedom and development
YEREVAN, 26 May 2003- The international election observation mission for the Armenian parliamentary elections strongly condemns the shooting last night at a polling station in Shahumian, south of Yerevan, that reportedly resulted in the death of one...
New Director named for Kosovo Law Centre
Publishing date: 22 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
PRISTINA, 22 May 2003- With the appointment of Dr. Haki Demolli as Director of the OSCE-established Kosovo Law Centre (KLC), the team which will work to transform it into a fully independent body is now in place. "The KLC is now ready to face...
OSCE's human rights office welcomes progress in Kazakhstan prison reform
Publishing date: 22 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
WARSAW, 22 May 2003- The OSCE/ODIHR welcomes progress made in reforming Kazakhstan's prison system. Since the recent adoption of legislation to reduce the country's large prison population, the number of inmates has fallen from 66,000 to 58,000...
OSCE Mission organizes training programme for trial observers in Skopje
Publishing date: 21 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
SKOPJE, 21 May 2003- More than 60 advocates, lawyers, law students and human rights activists will join a training programme in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on the background and the techniques of trial observation. The training...