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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Meeting on property issues in South-Eastern Europe
Publishing date: 17 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed), OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
ZAGREB, 17 October, 2000-- On 16 and 17 October the OSCE Mission to Croatia hosted a meeting of property experts from OSCE missions and offices in South-Eastern Europe...
Apparent manipulation of some international observers in Belarus
Publishing date: 17 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WARSAW, 17 October 2000-- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) cannot be associated with the conclusions of some international observers who appear to have been manipulated...
Largest all-European human rights conference opens
Publishing date: 17 October 2000
Content type: Press release
WARSAW, 17 October 2000- Government representatives from 54 OSCE participating States, human rights experts, and more than 150 international and non-governmental organizations gathered today in Warsaw...
Parliamentary Troika and OSCE/ODIHR issue reports on Belarus election process
Publishing date: 16 October 2000
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
MINSK, 16 October 2000- The Parliamentary Troika, composed of the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assemblies of the OSCE and the Council of Europe, issued a Report on the political situation in Belarus in light of the parliamentary elections...
Election process in Albania marked progress despite serious problems in second round
Publishing date: 16 October 2000
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
TIRANA, 16 October 2000-- Despite some serious problems in the second round of the local government elections in Albania, the overall election process marked progress, concluded the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights...
OSCE to address controversial issue of Roma refugees and asylum seekers
Publishing date: 11 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Migration, National minority issues, Roma and Sinti
WARSAW, 11 October 2000- Every year, thousands of Roma, also known as Gypsies, from East Central and South Eastern Europe leave their homes and seek asylum, mostly in countries of Western Europe and North America...
OSCE welcomes registration of all political parties in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 10 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Elections
BAKU, 10 October 2000-- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) welcomes the decision by the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan to register all political parties...