News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Trieste seminar spotlights effects of demographic imbalance on security
Publishing date: 9 November 2004
TRIESTE, 9 November 2004- The impact of unbalanced population growth on economic development and security was the focus of a two-day international seminar ending today in the Italian city of Trieste. Ageing, health hazards, family dynamics, population...
OSCE Media Freedom Representative holds roundtable in Baku on decriminalising libel
Publishing date: 29 October 2004
BAKU, 29 October 2004- Legislation affecting freedom of the media in Azerbaijan headed the agenda of a roundtable which ended yesterday in Baku. Organised by the OSCE Representative...
OSCE Magazine features police reform in Kyrgyzstan, interview with U.S. Ambassador
Publishing date: 28 October 2004
VIENNA, 28 October 2004- Kyrgyzstan's ground-breaking efforts to modernize its culture of policing, U.S. views on the future of the OSCE and on its role in observing next week's U.S. presidential election, combating the new "cyber-hate", and...
Libel and freedom of information in South Caucasus focus of OSCE conference in Tbilisi
Publishing date: 27 October 2004
TBILISI, 27 October 2004- Libel and access to information were on the agenda of the first OSCE South Caucasus Media Conference which ended Tuesday in the Georgian capital. Journalists from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia...
OSCE Croatia mission condemns bomb attack on party office in Vukovar, warns against rash reactions
Publishing date: 22 October 2004
ZAGREB, 22 October 2004- Head of the OSCE Mission to Croatia, Peter Semneby, today condemned a recent bomb attack on an office of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) in Vukovar. The incident occurred on Wednesday in Vukovar's Borovo Naselje district...
Moldovan public broadcasting lacks alternative voices, says OSCE Media Freedom Representative
Publishing date: 22 October 2004
VIENNA, 22 October 2004- "There is too much government and insufficient alternative opinion on Moldova's public broadcaster", the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, said concluding a fact-finding visit to Moldova. The...
OSCE Mission sponsors Croatian police visit to Germany
Publishing date: 1 October 2004
ZAGREB, 1 October 2004- Five senior Croatian police officers will travel on Saturday to Germany for a one week visit to study methods of human resource management in a modern European police service. The visit is organized...