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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
POINT of publication: multi-ethnic Tetovo school paper hits streets
Publishing date: 22 January 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Media freedom and development, National minority issues
TETOVO, 22 January 2003- After a dummy issue in December, "POINT" finally came to the point of publication. The first edition of the first school newspaper edited and produced by a team of Macedonian, Albanian and Turkish youngsters was...
OSCE to evaluate women's rights and anti-trafficking project in Albania
Publishing date: 22 January 2003
Content type: Press release
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights, Roma and Sinti
TIRANA, 22 January 2003- Achievements and future activities of an OSCE project on Women's Rights and Anti-Trafficking Education (WRATE) will be discussed in a three-day meeting to start in Tirana tomorrow. Ambassador Osmo Lipponen, the Head of...
Damage compensation laws should be consistent with European Court ruling, OSCE Croatia Head says
Publishing date: 21 January 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
ZAGREB, 21 January 2003- Three draft laws on state compensation for damages adopted by the Government of Croatia last week do not remedy legal problems identified by the European Court of Human Rights in 2002 and should therefore be revised, the...
New OSCE Head of Mission and CiO Personal Representative to facilitate solution in Moldova
Publishing date: 21 January 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Moldova
THE HAGUE, 21 January 2003- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, has appointed Ambassador William H. Hill of the United States as Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova. For Ambassador Hill, a distinguished...
Head of OSCE Mission to Federal Republic of Yugoslavia visits Montenegro
Publishing date: 21 January 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
BELGRADE/PODGORICA, 21 January 2003- In his first visit to the Republic of Montenegro, the new Head of the OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), Ambassador Maurizio Massari, held constructive meetings today with leading...
OSCE and ICG reject irresponsible reporting of Bosnian weekly
Publishing date: 21 January 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
SARAJEVO, 21 January 2003- The OSCE and the International Crisis Group (ICG) strongly reject the weekly Slobodna Bosna's reporting on the international community's activities and efforts in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a "shocking and...
OSCE/ODIHR starts observation of presidential election in Armenia
Publishing date: 20 January 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
YEREVAN, 20 January 2003- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has established an Election Observation Mission to monitor the presidential election scheduled for 19 February in Armenia. The Mission consists of 26...