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OSCE Mission Head presents report on Croatia's international commitments

Publishing date: 19 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development, National minority issues
ZAGREB, 19 November 2002- A report on Croatia's fulfilment of its international commitments was outlined to the media today by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Croatia, Ambassador Peter Semneby. The 30-page report details progress in...

OSCE continues training NGO members in Tajikistan on human rights monitoring and reporting

Publishing date: 19 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Human rights
DUSHANBE, 19 November 2002- The OSCE Center in Dushanbe completed the second session of its training of representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Tajikistan on human rights monitoring and reporting. The training...

Temporary Media Commissioner of Kosovo sanctions two dailies

Publishing date: 19 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 19 November 2002- Today the TMC dismissed Bota Sot's belated appeal against the sanction of 17,500 Euro, following the ruling of the Media Hearing Board (MHB) of 3 September 2002 in the cases of...

Kosovo's Media Appeals Board fines Bota Sot daily

Publishing date: 19 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 19 November 2002- Kosovo Albanian daily Bota Sot was fined 8,000 euros for violating Sections 6.2 and 3.1 of the Temporary Code of Conduct of the Print Media in Kosovo in the cases brought by Baton Haxhiu and Blerim Shala...

Exhibition "United Europe Against Slavery" opens in Yerevan

Publishing date: 18 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
YEREVAN, 18 November 2002- The exhibition United Europe Against Slavery, which opens today at the Moskva Cinema Theater in Yerevan, is a landmark event to raise public awareness on human trafficking issues...

First free national anti-trafficking hotline in Ukraine to start today

Publishing date: 18 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
KYIV, 18 November 2002- Ukraine's first free national telephone hotline service to fight the scandal of trafficking in human beings will officially start working today. The establishment of the hotline was initiated and...

OSCE roundtable in Albania discusses women's rights, anti-trafficking

Publishing date: 15 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
TIRANA, 15 November 2002- Women's rights in Albania and measures against trafficking in human beings supported by the OSCE brought together Albanian and international experts in a roundtable today. The Tirana roundtable, hosted...

Serbian Natural Resources and Environment Ministry and OSCE Mission sign memorandum on co-operation

Publishing date: 13 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
BELGRADE, 13 November 2002- A Memorandum on Co-operation was signed today between the Serbian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). This signing represented...

First Preparatory Seminar for Economic Forum held in Sofia

Publishing date: 13 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SOFIA, 13 November, 2002- The First Preparatory Seminar for the OSCE's 11th Economic Forum next year was opened in Sofia on 11 November by the Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Solomon Passy...

Canada supports irrigation channel repair in Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone

Publishing date: 13 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Arms control, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
TBILISI, 13 November 2002- An OSCE-initiated programme of collective compensation for weapons voluntarily handed over is well underway: The 35-km Trifoni irrigation channel in the Georgian-South Ossetian...