News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Human Rights Head deplores wave of arrests in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 20 October 2003
WARSAW, 20 October 2003- Ambassador Christian Strohal, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), has expressed deep concern over a wave of arrests of opposition party officials and supporters in the wake of...
OSCE Mission organizes visit to support transparent and open leadership in Kosovo
Publishing date: 20 October 2003
PRISTINA, 20 October 2003- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo's Democratisation Department has arranged for a group of municipal information officers to visit their counterparts in two cities in neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina over the next two days...
OSCE's media representative alarmed over beating of journalists in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 17 October 2003
VIENNA, 17 October 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, expressed alarm over the beating of journalists by police during post-election protests in Baku yesterday. "Once again I feel compelled to express my alarm...
OSCE Skopje Mission sponsors public prosecutors' seminar to discuss reform bill
Publishing date: 17 October 2003
SKOPJE, 17 October 2003- The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje is supporting the professional development and reform efforts of the Public Prosecutors Association (PPA) by sponsoring its two-day seminar on the 'Status of Public Prosecutors'...
OSCE CiO on Azeri presidential elections and his visit to the Southern Caucasus
Publishing date: 17 October 2003
THE HAGUE, 17 October 2003- The Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, has expressed concern about the post-election atmosphere in Azerbaijan, in which...
OSCE minorities commissioner welcomes new statute in southern Serbian municipality
Publishing date: 17 October 2003
THE HAGUE, 17 October 2003- The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Rolf Ekeus, today praised the adoption of a new Statute of the Municipal Assembly of Medvedja in southern Serbia. The new statute will, among others things, introduce...
Uzbek and Afghan officials to attend OSCE border control training
Publishing date: 17 October 2003
TASHKENT, 17 October 2003- Border guards, police officers and customs officials from Uzbekistan and Afghanistan will attend a two-week OSCE training course, which will start in the Uzbek border town of Termez next week. Officials from the...
Joint statement on presidential election in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 16 October 2003
BAKU, 16 October 2003- Voting in the 15 October Azerbaijan presidential election was generally well administered in most polling stations but the overall election process still fell short of international standards in several...
OSCE organizes roundtables on equal access to education in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 16 October 2003
SARAJEVO, 16 October 2003- The right of children with special needs to enjoy equal education free from discrimination was one of the key points discussed at an OSCE-organized series of roundtables in Bosnia and Herzegovina that ended today...
OSCE/ODIHR launches handbook on dealing with human rights complaints
Publishing date: 15 October 2003
WARSAW, 15 October 2003- The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), one of Europe's leading human rights institutions, has released a handbook for OSCE field personnel dealing with human rights complaints. "The human...