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OSCE Mission helps Georgia become an "area free of torture"

Publishing date: 28 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Human rights
TBILISI, 28 May 2003- Taking a further step towards fulfilling its OSCE commitments to eliminate torture and inhuman treatment, Georgia today has launched a new website displaying important anti-torture information issued by the Georgian authorities...

OSCE media watchdog asks U.S. to clarify detention of French journalists

Publishing date: 26 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 26 May 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, has asked U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell for clarifications regarding the detention of six French journalists on arrival in Los Angeles on 10 and 11 May...

International observers condemn violence overshadowing Armenian parliamentary elections

Publishing date: 26 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
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...

Chairman-in-Office urges OSCE States to take concrete steps in fight against trafficking

Publishing date: 20 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
PRAGUE, 20 May 2003- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, the Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, has called on OSCE States at the 11th OSCE Economic Forum to identify concrete steps to better fight trafficking...