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Provisional Election Commission amends Rule on Compensatory Seats in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 22 June 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 22 June 2000-- The Provisional Election Commission (PEC) recently adopted changes to the Rules and Regulations regarding compensatory...
OSCE and UNHCR concerned by lists designed to discourage return
Publishing date: 23 June 2000
ZAGREB, 23 June 2000- The OSCE Mission to Croatia and UNHCR are concerned about the recent appearance of unsigned lists of persons of Serb ethnicity...
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina opens Political Resource Center in Ljubuski
Publishing date: 23 June 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization
SARAJEVO, 23 June 2000-- Ambassador Robert Barry, Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Robert Patrick Jacobs, USAID Mission\'s Deputy...
Provisional Election Commission removes mandates of five elected Bosnian councilors for violation of PEC Rule 7.16
Publishing date: 23 June 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 23 June 2000-- The Provisional Election Commission (PEC) has removed the mandates of five councilors...
OSCE condemns all attacks on journalists in Kosovo
Publishing date: 23 June 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
Pristina, 23 June 2000-- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo condemns the shooting of a Serbian journalist in downtown Pristina earlier this week. The attack was a further example of...
Rules established for registration of domestic election observers in Kosovo
Publishing date: 23 June 2000
PRISTINA, 23 June 2000-- In order to have credible municipal elections, it is essential that observers be present at all polling sites and counting centres...
More than 500 Kosovo journalists receive training
Publishing date: 23 June 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 23 June 2000-- A mixed group of 20 Kosovo journalists is in Rome for a three week long training session organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and the Italian Association of...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office speaks out against torture
Publishing date: 26 June 2000
Content type: Press release
What we do: Human rights
Vienna, 26 June 2000- \"Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment constitute an attempt to destroy a fellow human being physically and mentally...\"
Bosnian women politicians establish Organization of Women in Local Governance
Publishing date: 27 June 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization
Sarajevo, 27 June 27 2000-- With the aim of institutionalizing the informal network women politicians have developed over the past months, the OSCE Mission...
Bosnian NGOs to develop a common strategy for upcoming elections
Publishing date: 27 June 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 27 June 2000-- In order to assist the development of a common NGO strategy in the pre-election period and its related activities...