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Go-ahead given for Out of Kosovo election day operations
Publishing date: 18 October 2002
PRISTINA, 18 October 2002- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo welcomes the signing of Memoranda of Understandings which will allow the setting up of polling stations in Serbia and Montenegro for Kosovo's municipal elections...
Banja Luka and Sanski Most firms join OSCE's Fair Employment Project
Publishing date: 17 October 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, National minority issues
BANJA LUKA, 17 October 2002- Three firms today signed a memorandum of understanding with the OSCE to participate in the Fair Employment project. The firms pledge to adopt principles of equal possibilities for all, regardless...
Polling station committees to provide better service to voters in Kosovo municipal elections
Publishing date: 17 October 2002
PRISTINA, 17 October 2002- Providing a better service to voters on Elections Day is the focus of a training programme taking place in and around Kosovo under the auspices of the OSCE. The training is designed for the members...
OSCE Mission in Kosovo: Disconnecting of power was unfounded and illegal
Publishing date: 17 October 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
PRISTINA, 17 October 2002- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo demanded today that the Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK) re-start the supply of power to the OSCE Headquarters in Pristina. "The disconnection of electricity that occurred...
Bishkek seminar stresses importance of penal reform
Publishing date: 15 October 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
BISHKEK, 15 October 2002- Experts at a seminar in Krygyzstan on prisoners' rights stressed that penal reform, in order to be successful, needs a complex approach and allies in the government, in the Parliament, in the court system...
OSCE's human rights cinema week in Tajikistan becomes regular event
Publishing date: 15 October 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Human rights
DUSHANBE, 15 October 2002- Moviegoers, as well as people interested in human rights were brought together for five days of film screenings in the Tajik capital. The second Cinema Week on Human Rights, organized by the OSCE Mission...
Ballots for municipal elections arrive today in Kosovo
Publishing date: 15 October 2002
PRISTINA, 15 October 2002- Over two million ballots arrive today in Kosovo for the 26 October Municipal Elections. The ballots, which were printed in the United Kingdom, are being brought to Kosovo on an aircraft chartered by...