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Dushanbe Declaration 2000: Present and Future of Mass Media in Central Asia
Publishing date: 15 November 2000
Collections: Central Asia media conferences
Content type: Decision / declaration
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Second Central Asia Media Conference on "Mass Media in Central Asia: Present and Future", Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 14-15 November 2000
U.N. Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime
Publishing date: 15 November 2000
Content type: Decision / declaration
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
U.N. Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime
International Mechanisms for Promoting Freedom of Expression
Publishing date: 11 November 2000
Collections: Joint declarations
Content type: Decision / declaration
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Current Challenges to Media Freedom: Joint declaration by the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media and the OAS Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression
Berlin declaration: "Journalists in Danger: How We Can Help"
Publishing date: 6 November 2000
Content type: Decision / declaration
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Permanent Council Decision No. 286
Publishing date: 18 February 1999
Collections: 210th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Content type: Decision / declaration
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, OSCE Secretariat
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Authorizing the Secretary General to incur additional obligations concerning the KVM
Situation of media in Belarus
Publishing date: 1 May 2001
Collections: Country and special reports
Content type: Report
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Review of the Election Legislation for Election Disputes, Appeals and Penalties in the Republic of Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 26 April 2001
Content type: Report
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This report reviews key issues on the resolution of election disputes, appeals against election decisions and election offences and administrative violations under the law of Kazakhstan. It draws extensively on a detailed assessment prepared by Denis Petit, Legal Expert. The report also draws on other OSCE/ODIHR election reports on Kazakhstan, in particular the Review of the Legal Framework for the Parliamentary Elections (29 June 1999), supplemented by recommendations contained in the Needs Assessment Mission Report (25 August 1999), the Final Report on the October 1999 Parliamentary Elections (20 January 2000) and the Review of the Election Legislation for Parliamentary Elections (18 January 2001). The legal framework for the conduct of elections is provided by the Constitution, the Constitutional Law of 28 June 1999 on Elections in the Republic of Kazakhstan, provisions on election offences and violations contained in the Criminal Code and the new Administrative Violations Code, regulations adopted by the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) and other acts. The principal source of election rules is the 1999 Law and chapter 11 of the new Administrative Violations Code.
Assessment of the Laws on Parliamentary and Presidential Elections in the Republic of Serbia (FYR)
Publishing date: 26 April 2001
Content type: Report
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This report provides an assessment of two laws of the Republic of Serbia, the Law on Elections of Members of Parliament and the Law on Elections of the President of the Republic. The parliamentary election law was adopted in October 2000. The presidential law dates from 1990. Under the Constitution of Serbia, the National Assembly is a unicameral body and consists of 250 members directly elected by secret ballot for a term of four years. The president is elected directly by secret ballot for a term of five years. Most of the key issues relating to the election and recall of the president are regulated by reference to the parliamentary election law. The report therefore focuses on the content of that law.
Montenegro, Parliamentary Elections, 22 April 2001: Preliminary Statement
Publishing date: 23 April 2001
Collections: Montenegro
Content type: Report
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Letter from HCNM to the Slovak Republic regarding language
Publishing date: 10 December 1997
Content type: Letter
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Letter from High Commissioner on National Minorities Max van der Stoel to the Foreign Minister of the Slovak Republic regarding language.