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OSCE holds workshop on Ombudsman institution in Yugoslavia

Publishing date: 12 July 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
BELGRADE, 12 July 2001 (OSCE)-- In co-operation with the Yugoslav Federal Ministry of Justice and the Office of the Greek Ombudsman, the OSCE Mission in Belgrade held a workshop on the Model of an Ombudsman Institution for the Federal Republic...

OSCE to hold second anti-corruption seminar in Lviv

Publishing date: 12 July 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
KYIV, 12 July 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine in co-operation with the country\'s Public Prosecutor General will hold on 16 and 17 July a seminar on Corruption Investigation and Prevention Strategy in Lviv...

OSCE Chairman-in-Office addresses 10th annual meeting of the Organization's Parliamentary Assembly

Publishing date: 6 July 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Border management, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, Policing
PARIS, 6 July 2001 (OSCE)- Addressing the 10th annual meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA), the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Mircea Geoana, stressed that the ten years of activities of the PA reflected ten years of dramatic change in Europe...

Bosnia and Herzegovina: transfer of Karadzic and Mladic "obligatory under international law"

Publishing date: 2 July 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
SARAJEVO, 2 July 2001 (OSCE)- The transfer of indicted war criminals such as Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic is an obligation under international law and no separate entity law is required, said Robert Beecroft, Head of the OSCE Mission...

Chairman-in-Office welcomes transfer of Milosevic to The Hague

Publishing date: 29 June 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Media freedom and development, National minority issues
BUCHAREST, 29 June 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, welcomes the transfer of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia...

OSCE Chairman-in-Office urges redoubled efforts to combat torture

Publishing date: 26 June 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Human rights
BUCHAREST, 26 June 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office today called on all OSCE countries to redouble their efforts to combat torture and other ill-human treatment. \"All OSCE states have committed themselves to take effective legislative...

OSCE plans new anti-torture activities with Armenian authorities

Publishing date: 26 June 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Human rights
YEREVAN, 26 June 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Office in Yerevan joins in commemorating the United Nations International Day in Support for Victims of Torture on June 26, which will be marked for the third time since 1998. Created by a Resolution...