News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission concerned over shooting of media owner in Croatia
Publishing date: 17 December 2003
ZAGREB, 17 December 2003- The OSCE Mission to Croatia has expressed its concerns today over Monday night's shooting of one of the co-owners of Croatia's first commercial TV station, NOVA TV. The shots fired at Ivan Caleta resulted in serious leg...
OSCE/ODIHR re-establishes its election observation mission in Georgia
Publishing date: 17 December 2003
TBILISI/WARSAW, 17 December 2003- For the forthcoming 4 January presidential election in Georgia, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has re-established its long-term Election Observation Mission there, to monitor...
Moldovan trafficking victims become more isolated and vulnerable, says UN-OSCE report
Publishing date: 17 December 2003
CHISINAU, 17 December 2003- Failure to protect the human rights of trafficking victims is a key obstacle to progress in the fight against trafficking and organized crime in Moldova, the United Nations and the OSCE Mission to Moldova warn in a...
OSCE PA, ODIHR to lead observation of presidential elections in Georgia
Publishing date: 17 December 2003
COPENHAGEN, 17 December 2003- The incoming OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, has appointed OSCE PA President Bruce George to lead the Short Term OSCE Observation Mission for 2004 presidential elections in Georgia...
New Croatian government faces key test on human rights implementation, says OSCE Mission report
Publishing date: 16 December 2003
ZAGREB, 16 December 2003- A new report issued by the OSCE Mission to Croatia urges the new Croatian government to ensure that key human rights issues are dealt with as priorities. "The new Government inherits a mixed legacy, on the one hand, the...
International community in Skopje welcomes results of weapons collection programme
Publishing date: 16 December 2003
SKOPJE, 16 December 2003- The Skopje-based representatives of the OSCE, the EU, NATO and the U.S. welcomed the results of the Weapons Collection Programme announced today. A joint statement by the Head of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to...
OSCE Centre in Tashkent opens Internet Café for Journalists
Publishing date: 16 December 2003
TASHKENT, 16 December 2003- An OSCE-sponsored Internet Café for Journalists has opened new possibilities for Uzbekistan's working media who need access to the up-to-date global information network...
OSCE Mission calls for consolidation of democracy in Serbia's parliamentary elections
Publishing date: 15 December 2003
BELGRADE, 15 December 2003- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro believes that the Serbian parliamentary elections scheduled for 28 December will be an important moment for the consolidation of democracy in Serbia. It is the Mission's hope...
OSCE Almaty roundtable to focus on problem of juvenile delinquency
Publishing date: 12 December 2003
ALMATY, 12 December 2003- Discussion of the legal status of under-aged offenders who are not criminally liable due to their youth will bring together Kazakhstan's human rights experts at a roundtable next week. In criminological terminology...
Outgoing OSCE media watchdog reports to participating States about deteriorating press freedom
Publishing date: 11 December 2003
VIENNA, 11 December 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, today strongly criticised a deterioration in media freedom in many participating States in his final statement to the Permanent Council before leaving office...