News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
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...
Trafficking victims become more isolated and vulnerable, international report says
Publishing date: 10 December 2003
VIENNA, 11 December 2003- Failure to protect the human rights of trafficking victims is a key obstacle to progress in the fight against trafficking and organised crime in south-eastern Europe, according to a joint report of the OSCE, the UN and...
OSCE human rights chief warns against use of "war on terrorism" to justify repression
Publishing date: 10 December 2003
LONDON/WARSAW, 10 December 2003- On International Human Rights Day, the OSCE human rights chief, Ambassador Christian Strohal, has warned that the "war on terrorism" was being used in some countries as an excuse to suppress legitimate...
OSCE Albania Presence notes continued problems with political conduct in 7 December elections
Publishing date: 10 December 2003
TIRANA, 10 December 2003- Sunday's local government elections in the municipality of Vergo were conducted in an orderly manner, however the repeat voting in the commune of Gruemire was marred by serious violations of the law, said the OSCE...
OSCE Centre concludes its project on civil procedural code in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 10 December 2003
ASHGABAD, 10 December 2003- The final roundtable of a series of five on the draft of the civil procedural code of Turkmenistan ended today. The events were organized by the OSCE Centre, in co-operation with the Turkmen government...
Human rights should be priority for new government, OSCE Croatia mission head says
Publishing date: 9 December 2003
ZAGREB, 9 December 2003- "The respect and promotion of international and European human rights standards is a goal the new Croatian Government will be expected to embrace," said the Head of the OSCE Mission to Croatia, Peter Semneby, today. In a...
Outgoing OSCE Media Representative to criticize participating States over press freedom in final report
Publishing date: 9 December 2003
VIENNA, 9 December 2003- After six years in office, Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, will on Thursday, 11 December, give his last official report to the Organization's 55-nation Permanent Council...