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Human rights monitoring training launched in Armenia
Publishing date: 29 March 2001
YEREVAN, 29 March 2001-- The OSCE Office in Yerevan has launched a training programme for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Armenia on accurate and comprehensive human rights reporting. The first session took place from 24 to 28 March 2001...
OSCE/ODIHR sends observers to monitor parliamentary elections in Montenegro
Publishing date: 28 March 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
PODGORICA, 28 MARCH 2001-- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has deployed an Election Observation Mission to monitor the 22 April parliamentary elections in Montenegro (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)...
Concern over the conflict in Bulgarian state radio
Publishing date: 27 March 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 27 March 2001-- On 21 March, Bulgarian police entered the premises of Bulgarian National Radio and barred the station\'s journalists from their studios. The journalists were protesting the appointment of a new Executive Director
Skopje media commended for restraint
Publishing date: 27 March 2001
Content type: Press release
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 27 March 2001-- Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, welcomed the restraint and level of responsibility of the media in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in reporting the current conflict
Amendments to draft defamation legislation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 27 March 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization, Media freedom and development
SARAJEVO, 27 March 2001-- Today, the Office of the High Representative and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina forwarded amendments to the draft defamation legislation submitted to the Entity governments on 12 February 2001...
Decisions on campaign financing violations in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 27 March 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 27 March 2001-- At its session on 23 March, the Election Appeals Sub-Commission for Bosnia and Herzegovina issued three summary decisions and two individual decisions regarding alleged violations of the campaign financing requirements
OSCE welcomes decision on Ferhadija Mosque in Banja Luka
Publishing date: 27 March 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
SARAJEVO, 27 March 2001-- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina welcomes the decision by the Banja Luka municipal authorities to issue the urban permit required for the reconstruction of the Ferhadija Mosque in Banja Luka...