News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE holds training seminars on fight against human trafficking in northern Tajikistan
Publishing date: 4 July 2003
DUSHANBE/KHUJAND, 3 July 2003- A four-month awareness-raising campaign to inform the population about the problem of human trafficking recently ended in Tajikistan's northern region of Sughd...
OSCE Mission condemns discrimination against Vukovar boy
Publishing date: 3 July 2003
ZAGREB, 3 July 2003- The OSCE Mission to Croatia today joined senior Croatian officials in condemning a discriminatory decision barring a Croatian Serb boy in Vukovar from playing at a football tournament on the basis of his ethnic origins...
"Positive" textbooks ready in time for the new school year in Bosnia
Publishing date: 3 July 2003
SARAJEVO, 3 July, 2003- Students in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) will return to revised national subject textbooks in classrooms in September, thanks to the efforts of the re-established Textbook Review Commission this spring. The Commission, which...
Croatian representatives study Portuguese community policing methods
Publishing date: 1 July 2003
ZAGREB, 1 July 2003- A central Croatian police chief and a Croatian journalist have just returned from a two-weeks' training course in Portugal focused on its well-developed community policing programmes and the way media and police interact...
OSCE Mission Head lays out five conditions for the rule of law
Publishing date: 30 June 2003
BELGRADE, 30 June 2003- In an article published this week in Serbia's Nin magazine, the OSCE Head of Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, Ambassador Maurizio Massari outlined the importance of the rule of law as a cornerstone of a democratic society...
OSCE trains Armenian police on countering domestic violence
Publishing date: 27 June 2003
YEREVAN, 27 June 2003- An OSCE-organized training programme to enable Armenian police officers to more efficiently combat domestic violence began this week in the country's capital, Yerevan. "Domestic violence is an infringement of a person's...
International agencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina warn that housing officials will fine double occupants
Publishing date: 26 June 2003
SARAJEVO, 26 June 2003- The international agencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina involved in the Property Law Implementation Plan- the Office of the High Representative, the OSCE Mission, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...