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OSCE/ODIHR urges redoubled efforts for democratic elections

Publishing date: 29 May 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WARSAW, 29 May 2001-- The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the OSCE's election watchdog, today called on OSCE countries to redouble their efforts for democratic elections...

Human rights training in Uzbekistan focuses on criminal procedure

Publishing date: 29 May 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Human rights
TASHKENT, 29 May 2001-- International human rights standards for criminal procedure and their implementation in Uzbekistan were the focus of training sessions co-organized by the OSCE in Bukhara and Tashkent from 21 to 29 May 2001...

New OSCE photo gallery online

Publishing date: 28 May 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Economic activities, Border management, Environmental activities, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, Media freedom and development, National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector, Roma and Sinti
VIENNA, 28 May 2001 (OSCE)-- An online archive of images depicting the work of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in its 21 field operations throughout south-eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Eastern Europe is now...

Chairman-in-Office meets with Personal Representative Frowick

Publishing date: 26 May 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Personal Representatives of the Chairperson-in-Office, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BUCHAREST, 26 May 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, met yesterday with Ambassador Robert Frowick, the Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office

Concern over attack against Cyprus daily

Publishing date: 25 May 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 25 May 2001 (OSCE)-- Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, is very much concerned about a recent attack against the independent daily newspaper \'Avrupa\' in the northern part of Cyprus. As a result of a bomb explosion...

Duve concerned about violent attacks against journalists in Spain

Publishing date: 25 May 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 25 May 2001 (OSCE)-- Freimut Duve, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, addressed the Permanent Council yesterday expressing his great concern about the continuing violence against journalists in Spain...

Kosovo's Election Commission sets rules for political party certification

Publishing date: 25 May 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Elections
PRISTINA, 25 May 2001 (OSCE)-- Political entities wishing to contest this year's central elections will have to meet a list of requirements before their applications will be approved by the Central Election Commission...

Skopje Mission speaks out against "patently false and potentially dangerous" media reporting

Publishing date: 25 May 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution
SKOPJE, 25 May 2001 (OSCE)-- The Head of the OSCE Spillover Monitoring Mission to Skopje, Carlo Ungaro, today sent the following letter to the editors-in-chief of print and electronic media in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia...

Chairman-in-Office condemns extremist violence in former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Publishing date: 25 May 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BUCHAREST, 25 May 2001 (OSCE)- The Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, condemns in the strongest terms the extremist violence in the former Yugoslav Republic of...

Mission to Croatia refutes statement of Croatian Christian Democratic Union

Publishing date: 24 May 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Elections, National minority issues
ZAGREB, 24 May 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Mission to Croatia refutes the statement of the Croatian Christian Democratic Union (HKDU) on alleged bias during the monitoring of the local elections in Udbina. Croatian state television (HRT) had reported...