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OSCE Croatia mission welcomes declaration on refugee return in south-eastern Europe

Publishing date: 1 February 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Human rights
ZAGREB, 1 February 2005- The OSCE Mission to Croatia has welcomed the declaration on refugee return in south-eastern Europe by 2006, signed yesterday in Sarajevo by ministers responsible for refugee issues from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia...

OSCE media freedom representative asks Poland to remove prison sentences from libel law

Publishing date: 25 January 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Media freedom and development, Media laws
VIENNA, 25 January 2005- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, expressed his concern about recent cases in Poland in which journalists have been sentenced to prison terms for criminal libel. In a letter to the Polish...

OSCE Almaty seminar focuses on migration management

Publishing date: 24 January 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
ALMATY, 24 January 2005- An international seminar on the economic, environmental, security and humanitarian aspects of migration among the OSCE's 55 participating States opened in Almaty today. More than 200 representatives from NGOs, academics...

OSCE Mission assists domestic election monitoring in Croatia

Publishing date: 13 January 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Elections
ZAGREB, 13 January 2005- The OSCE Mission to Croatia has donated approximately 21,000 euros to assist GONG, Croatia's leading election monitoring non-governmental organization, to observe this Sunday's second round of voting in Croatia's presidential...

OSCE Croatia Mission calls for further reform of electoral legislation

Publishing date: 22 December 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Elections
ZAGREB, 22 December 2004- In the aftermath of the presidential election due to be held on 2 January, the OSCE Mission to Croatia will submit proposals on electoral reform to the Croatian authorities...

Regional travel documents security workshop held in Tashkent

Publishing date: 16 December 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Countering terrorism
TASHKENT, 16 December 2004- Experts from the Border Guard, Interior and Foreign Ministries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan took part in a workshop on travel document security in the Uzbek capital on 15 and 16 Dec...

Media freedom Internet "cookbook" presented by OSCE's Miklos Haraszti

Publishing date: 16 December 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media freedom on the internet
VIENNA, 16 December 2004- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, today presented a publication prepared by his Office which voices concern over limitations of access to the Internet and offers "recipes" on how to preserve the..