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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
International community in Skopje welcomes results of weapons collection programme
Publishing date: 16 December 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
SKOPJE, 16 December 2003- The Skopje-based representatives of the OSCE, the EU, NATO and the U.S. welcomed the results of the Weapons Collection Programme announced today. A joint statement by the Head of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to...
OSCE Centre in Tashkent opens Internet Café for Journalists
Publishing date: 16 December 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Democratization, Media freedom and development
TASHKENT, 16 December 2003- An OSCE-sponsored Internet Café for Journalists has opened new possibilities for Uzbekistan's working media who need access to the up-to-date global information network...
OSCE Mission calls for consolidation of democracy in Serbia's parliamentary elections
Publishing date: 15 December 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Elections
BELGRADE, 15 December 2003- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro believes that the Serbian parliamentary elections scheduled for 28 December will be an important moment for the consolidation of democracy in Serbia. It is the Mission's hope...
OSCE Almaty roundtable to focus on problem of juvenile delinquency
Publishing date: 12 December 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
ALMATY, 12 December 2003- Discussion of the legal status of under-aged offenders who are not criminally liable due to their youth will bring together Kazakhstan's human rights experts at a roundtable next week. In criminological terminology...
Outgoing OSCE media watchdog reports to participating States about deteriorating press freedom
Publishing date: 11 December 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 11 December 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, today strongly criticised a deterioration in media freedom in many participating States in his final statement to the Permanent Council before leaving office...
Trafficking victims become more isolated and vulnerable, international report says
Publishing date: 10 December 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
VIENNA, 11 December 2003- Failure to protect the human rights of trafficking victims is a key obstacle to progress in the fight against trafficking and organised crime in south-eastern Europe, according to a joint report of the OSCE, the UN and...
OSCE human rights chief warns against use of "war on terrorism" to justify repression
Publishing date: 10 December 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Countering terrorism
LONDON/WARSAW, 10 December 2003- On International Human Rights Day, the OSCE human rights chief, Ambassador Christian Strohal, has warned that the "war on terrorism" was being used in some countries as an excuse to suppress legitimate...