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OSCE/ODIHR meets Presidential Representative for Human Rights in Chechnya and agrees to develop concrete support
Publishing date: 24 March 2000
Content type: Press release
MOSCOW, 24 March 2000-- Vladimir Kalamanov, the Russian Presidential Special Representative for Human Rights in Chechnya,...
OSCE Chairmanship deplores unprovoked show of police force in Belarus
Publishing date: 27 March 2000
VIENNA, 27 March 2000-- The OSCE Chairmanship has learned with alarm about an unprovoked, unjustified and exaggerated show of police force in Minsk, Belarus on 25...
Training to start for journalists in Kosovo
Publishing date: 31 March 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 31 March 2000-- The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe is launching a training course for local radio journalists from across Kosovo, to begin Monday 3rd April....
Environmental impact of conflicts and post-conflict rehabilitation to be discussed at 8th OSCE Economic Forum
Publishing date: 5 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
VIENNA, 5 April 2000-- The Eighth Economic Forum of the OSCE will take place in Prague from 11 to 14 April 2000. The Forum...
OSCE/ODIHR supports activities surrounding the International Roma Day
Publishing date: 5 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Roma and Sinti
Warsaw, 5 April 2000- The OSCE/ODIHR Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues supports a number of awareness-raising activities organized on the occasion of the...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office expresses serious concern about recent developments in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 5 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
Vienna, 5 April 2000- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner, is seriously concerned about reports...
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina confirms increased pressure on journalists
Publishing date: 6 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Media freedom and development
SARAJEVO, 6 April 2000- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina has analyzed the reports of threat and intimidation made in the past year against...
OSCE reminds out-of-country voters about their voting options in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 6 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 6 April 2000- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina reminds all out-of-country voters present in the country on election day that...
Elections integrity to be guaranteed by domestic and international observers in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 6 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 6 April 2000- With more than 6,600 domestic and international election observers, including 750 international supervisors,...
Report: Discrimination and exclusion are fundamental features of the Roma experience
Publishing date: 7 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: Roma and Sinti
HAGUE, 7 April 2000- The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Max van der Stoel, today issued a "Report on the Situation of Roma and...