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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission and Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights reject contradiction over tenancy rights figures
Publishing date: 2 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
ZAGREB, 2 June 2003- The OSCE Mission to Croatia and the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights have clarified the background to the figures recently presented in the media or attributed to these organizations in relation to the number of terminated...
OSCE Mission holds two-day anti-trafficking seminar for Serbian Ministry of Social Affairs
Publishing date: 2 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
BELGRADE, 2 June 2003- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro today opened an anti-trafficking seminar for representatives from the Serbian Ministry of Social Affairs. The seminar aims at assisting the Ministry...
OSCE media watchdog questions suspension of independent Belarusian newspapers
Publishing date: 30 May 2003
Content type: Press release
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 30 May 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, has asked Belarus Foreign Minister for urgent clarification regarding the suspension of publication of the independent newspapers Belaruskaya Delovaya Gazeta...
OSCE media watchdog concerned about ownership deregulation in USA
Publishing date: 29 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 29 May 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, expressed concern today over the effect that media deregulation in the USA, the most symbolically important country for the culture of press freedom...
OSCE PA Working Group on Belarus Visits Minsk and Gomel
Publishing date: 29 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
MINSK, 28 May 2003- Three members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Working Group on Belarus, Ms. Uta Zapf (Germany), the Chair of the Group, Mr. Urban Ahlin (Sweden), and Lord Ponsonby (United Kingdom) visited Gomel and Minsk...
OSCE supports first international mine clearance project in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 29 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
DUSHANBE, 29 May 2003- An agreement to start the first internationally supported mine clearance operations in Tajikistan was signed today in the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe, clearing the way for a nation-wide Mine Action Project to start in June...
Head of OSCE Kosovo Mission: History is our enemy
Publishing date: 29 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
PRISTINA, 29 May 2003- Almost four years after the OSCE began its work in Kosovo, the environment remains one of rapid change but Kosovo has been firmly established on the international agenda of unfinished business, Ambassador Pascal Fieschi...