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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission condemns discrimination against Vukovar boy
Publishing date: 3 July 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues
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
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues
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 President opens international conference on minority integration in southeastern Europe and the Baltics
Publishing date: 2 July 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, National minority issues
ZAGREB, 2 July 2003- Croatian President Stjepan Mesic on Wednesday opened a one-day international conference on "Minority Integration in Southeast Europe and the Baltic States," organized by the OSCE Mission to Croatia...
OSCE Mission to help improve Serbia's voter register
Publishing date: 2 July 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Elections
BELGRADE, 2 July 2003- The OSCE and the Serbian Government have agreed to work together to improve Serbia's voter register...
Europe's domestic observer groups develop common approach to election monitoring, urge full access to entire electoral process
Publishing date: 1 July 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Elections
ZAGREB, 1 July 2003- Domestic observer groups from across Europe have developed a common approach to monitoring elections and called on states to ensure full access of observers to all stages of the electoral process...
Croatian representatives study Portuguese community policing methods
Publishing date: 1 July 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, National minority issues, Policing
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...
New publication voices concerns of Kosovo's minorities
Publishing date: 1 July 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
PRISTINA, 1 July 2003- Ensuring that the voices of the many minority groups in Kosovo are better heard is the goal of a new booklet published by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)...