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OSCE Chairman encourages Croatia to continue refugee return efforts

Publishing date: 11 May 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, National minority issues
ZAGREB/ZADAR, 11 May 2004- Ending a two-day visit to Croatia during which he met returnees near Zadar, OSCE Chairman-in Office Solomon Passy congratulated the Croatian Government for making the resolution of refugees and displaced persons problem a...

OSCE Magazine highlights Kosovo, BiH education reform and Russian role in OSCE

Publishing date: 6 May 2004
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, Countering terrorism, Media freedom and development, National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector, Roma and Sinti
VIENNA, 6 May 2004- The impact of recent events in Kosovo on the OSCE's work, the relationship between Russia and the Organization, and a special report on education reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina are among the highlights of the Magazine's May issue...

OSCE 'Berlin Declaration' sets out concrete measures to fight anti-Semitism

Publishing date: 29 April 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
BERLIN, 29 April 2004- The OSCE's second Conference on anti-Semitism ended today with a ringing condemnation of all acts motivated by anti-Semitism or other forms of religious or racial hatred, and States agreed to take specific, practical counter...

OSCE/ODIHR supports Polish publication on Holocaust education

Publishing date: 27 April 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
WARSAW/BERLIN, 27 April 2004- The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and the Judaica Foundation in Kracow, Poland, have published a book focusing on the need to teach about the Holocaust. The book contains 13 essays by Polish...

OSCE Mission to Croatia report finds ethnic Serbs "disadvantaged" in war crime trials

Publishing date: 1 March 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues
ZAGREB, 1 March 2004- The OSCE Mission to Croatia has prepared a report based on monitoring of some 75 war crime trials during 2002 which shows that defendants of Serb ethnicity are disadvantaged at all stages of judicial proceedings compared to...

OSCE Mission to Croatia mourns death of staff member

Publishing date: 13 January 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
ZAGREB, 13 January 2004- A member of the OSCE Mission to Croatia, Steve Degeneve, tragically died yesterday evening less than two hours after a car accident. Degeneve, a 37-year old French citizen...

Former OSCE Media Representative receives Germany's Order of Merit

Publishing date: 13 January 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 13 January 2004- The former OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, today received the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from President Johannes Rau. The award honoured Duve's...