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OSCE journalism prize awarded to Christiane Amanpour
Publishing date: 23 April 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Media freedom and development
COPENHAGEN, 23 April 1999- The Leadership of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, meeting today in Copenhagen, has awarded the 1999 OSCE Prize for Journalism and Democracy to the international reporter, Christiane Amanpour.
OSCE supports UN Secretary General on Kosovo
Publishing date: 23 April 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 23 April 1999-- The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe expressed strong support for the recent statement made by the Secretary General of the United Nations on the crisis in Kos
OSCE KVM documents human rights violations committed in Kosovo
Publishing date: 20 April 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
What we do: Human rights
SKOPJE, 20 April 1999-- OSCE KVM Human Rights staff previously working in Kosovo are conducting in-depth interviews with victims and witnesses regarding alleged human rights violations, covering the period 20 March 1999 onwards....
OSCE KVM helps with refugee registration
Publishing date: 9 April 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Migration
PRISTINA, 9 April 1999-- The pace of registering ethnic Albanian refugees in the Stenkovac camps to make them ready for airlifts to sanctuary countries is rapidly increasing, and is expected soon to reach 2000 persons a day....
Kosovo Verification Mission supports UNHCR relief efforts
Publishing date: 6 April 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
What we do: Human rights
SKOPJE, 6 April 1999-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office Knut Vollebaek offered the resources of the 250 strong OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission in Ohrid, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, to support the UNHCR relief efforts in a statement on 1 April....
OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission investigates human rights violations
Publishing date: 4 April 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
What we do: Human rights
SKOPJE, 4 April 1999-- The OSCE Kosovo Mission, presently located in the former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (fYROM), is making a concerted effort to produce the most extensive picture possible of the human rights situation within Kosovo during the
OSCE Chairman-in-Office concerned about arrests in Belarus
Publishing date: 1 April 1999
VIENNA, 1 April 1999-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Norwegian Foreign Minister Knut Vollebæk, is deeply concerned about the 30 March 1999 arrest of Mr. Mikhail Chegir, a former Prime Minister of Belarus and one of the candidates for the presidenti
OSCE increases assistance to refugees from Kosovo
Publishing date: 1 April 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
What we do: Human rights
VIENNA, 1 April 1999-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Norwegian Foreign Minister Knut Vollebæk, has decided to use personnel and equipment from the OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM) to alleviate the situation for refugees who have fled from Kos
OSCE Chairman-in-Office outraged by crimes against population in Kosovo
Publishing date: 1 April 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
What we do: Human rights
OSLO, 1 April 1999-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Knut Vollebæk, expresses his profound outrage that Yugoslavian and Serbian forces have in recent days blatantly perpetrated, and continue to perpetrate, crimes agains
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President condemns atrocities in Kosovo
Publishing date: 31 March 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
COPENHAGEN, 31 March 1999-- Mrs. Helle Degn, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, today...