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OSCE elections office to assess parliamentary poll in Italy

Publishing date: 27 March 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WARSAW/ROME, 27 March 2008- Following an invitation from the Italian authorities, the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has deployed an election assessment mission to Italy for the 13 and 14 April parliamentary elections...

OSCE helps Kyrgyz state press officers and journalists work more closely, share information

Publishing date: 26 March 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 26 March 2008- Promoting effective communication between public bodies and the media is the aim of a two-day training course that started in Osh today...

OSCE assists Belarus in evaluating new information law

Publishing date: 26 March 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Media freedom and development
MINSK, 26 March 2008- A draft law on information is the focus of a roundtable discussion in Minsk today...

OSCE Centre in Dushanbe presents fruit orchards to people of Shaartuz

Publishing date: 26 March 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Environmental activities
SHAARTUZ, Tajikistan, 26 March 2008- Two fruit orchards donated by the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe were opened today in Shaartuz ahead of a international conference on ecology to be hosted by the Tajik Government there...

OSCE Chairman-in-Office appoints Kimmo Kiljunen Special Envoy for Elections

Publishing date: 26 March 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Elections
HELSINKI, 26 March 2008- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva, appointed today Kimmo Kiljunen, a Finnish member of parliament, as his Special Envoy on election-related issues...

Latest amendments to Slovakia's draft Press Act an improvement but still fall short, says OSCE media freedom representative

Publishing date: 25 March 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws
VIENNA, 25 March 2008- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, welcomed today the Slovak Government's acceptance of one of his key proposals for its draft Press Act...

OSCE media freedom representative welcomes Irish government move to decriminalize libel

Publishing date: 19 March 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 19 March 2008- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, welcomed today a decision by the Irish Justice Minister, Brian Lenihan, to fully abolish criminal libel...