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OSCE Mission calls for amendments to Georgian election code to enhance credibility of parliamentary election
Publishing date: 4 August 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Elections
TBILISI, 4 August 2003- The OSCE Mission to Georgia expresses its concern that deadlines set through broad agreement of Georgian political parties in early July for the adoption of amendments to the Unified Election Code have not yet been met. The...
Serious efforts needed to restore public confidence, says ODIHR report on Armenian parliamentary elections
Publishing date: 1 August 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Elections
WARSAW, 1 August 2003- Serious efforts must be made to improve the legal framework and conduct of elections in Armenia if public confidence in the electoral process there is to be restored, says the final report on the 25 May parliamentary elections...
OSCE brings young people together across Balkan borders
Publishing date: 1 August 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo, OSCE Mission to Skopje
PEJE/PEC, 1 August 2003- An OSCE-sponsored youth project will bring together young people from Kosovo and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia for a nine-day summer camp aimed at fostering reconciliation. Thirty young activists of...
OSCE Presence in Albania welcomes Assembly vote on election commission
Publishing date: 1 August 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Democratization, Elections
TIRANA, 1 August 2003- The OSCE Presence in Albania welcomes the vote taken in yesterday's extraordinary session of the Assembly, which elected Mr Dode Prenga as a new member of the Central Election Commission (CEC). After the vote, the Head of...
OSCE publishes study on media in multilingual societies
Publishing date: 31 July 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws
VIENNA, 31 July 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, today presented to the OSCE participating States a booklet entitled Media in Multilingual Societies, a compilation of five country reports. The publication...
OSCE event discusses role of NGOs in reforming Tajik prison system
Publishing date: 30 July 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
DUSHANBE, 30 July 2003- The important role NGOs could play in the development of prison reform in Tajikistan was the focus of an OSCE roundtable held today in the capital, Dushanbe. Main objective of the event was to raise the awareness of
OSCE's "unique police-training expertise" fulfils its role in former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Publishing date: 30 July 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Skopje
SKOPJE, 30 July 2003- With the graduation today of 350 multi-ethnic police cadets at the Idrizovo Police Academy in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the OSCE has completed a key part of the task entrusted to it under the Ohrid agreement...