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OSCE/ODIHR opens observation mission to monitor Slovak elections
Publishing date: 22 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
BRATISLAVA, 23 August 2002- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has established an election observation mission to monitor the elections to the National Council of the Slovak Republic scheduled for 20 and 21 September...
Training programme prepares over 3,500 police officers for Macedonian parliamentary elections
Publishing date: 16 August 2002
Content type: Press release
What we do: Human rights, Elections, Policing
SKOPJE, 16 August, 2002- More than 3,500 police officers have completed a training course on how to ensure security in line with international policing practices during the forthcoming parliamentary elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of...
OSCE's human rights office concerned about broadening of prosecutors' powers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 16 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
WARSAW, 16 August 2002- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) expressed its concern about a new law broadening the powers of the Prosecutor's Office in Kazakhstan. The law was passed by Parliament...
OSCE Mission finds repeated elections in FRY were generally up to standard
Publishing date: 12 August 2002
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
BELGRADE, 12 August 2002- The OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) finds that the municipal elections in Bujanovac, partially repeated yesterday, and the run-off in the Presevo mayoral elections held on 11 August were generally...
OSCE/ODIHR presents assessment of Montenegrin electoral legislation
Publishing date: 9 August 2002
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
PODGORICA, 9 August 2002- The OSCE Office in Montenegro today delivered to the Montenegrin Parliament and parliamentary party representatives an assessment by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on the...
OSCE Mission to Tajikistan extends human rights training for law enforcement bodies to Khatlon Region
Publishing date: 1 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Human rights
DUSHANBE, 1 August 2002- The OSCE Mission and the Tajik Government has extended their joint human training courses for law enforcement bodies to the Khatlon Region in the south of the country. A series of training sessions on "Human Rights and...
Southern Serbia municipal elections generally in line with international standards
Publishing date: 29 July 2002
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
BUJANOVAC, 29 July 2002- Yesterday's municipal elections in southern Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, generally were conducted in accordance with OSCE commitments for democratic elections and Council of Europe standards...