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UNHCR Office and OSCE Mission to Croatia concerned with postponed eviction in Vojnic

Publishing date: 3 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues
ZAGREB, 3 August 2004- The UNHCR Office and OSCE Mission to Croatia expressed concern today at reports that the execution of a 2001 court verdict to vacate the home of an elderly Serb returnee in Central Croatian town of Vojnic has once again been...

OSCE Magazine spotlights Tajikistan's revitalized push for land reform

Publishing date: 2 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
VIENNA, 2 August 2004- Tajikistan's ambitious land reform programme and its twin goals of economic and human security come under the spotlight in the OSCE Magazine's latest issue, now available online and in print. A series of articles examines how...

OSCE Mission Head says that adequate housing for former occupancy/tenancy rights holders key to closing refugee file in Croatia

Publishing date: 30 July 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
ZAGREB, 30 July 2004- Commenting today on a recent verdict by the European Court of Human Rights, addressing the legality of terminating occupancy/tenancy rights, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Croatia said the task of providing housing...

OSCE Centre in Ashgabad organizes seminar on combating terrorism

Publishing date: 27 July 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
ASHGABAD, 27 July 2004- A two-day OSCE seminar aimed at providing Turkmenistan's Government with up-to-date information on legal instruments as well as policies and activities of the international community in its global fight against terrorism...

OSCE Media Representative concerned over size of libel case fine in Kazakhstan

Publishing date: 22 July 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 22 July 2004- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, is concerned about the high level of a fine imposed on the Kazakh weekly newspaper Assandi-Times, and has raised the case with Kasymzhomart Tokayev...

OSCE: Linguistic cleansing underway in Transdniestria

Publishing date: 15 July 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues
THE HAGUE/CHISINAU, 15 July 2004- "Today's forced closure of the Moldovan School in Tiraspol is nothing less than linguistic cleansing," the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Rolf Ekeus, said on Thursday...

OSCE Mission concerned over prison sentence for libel, calls for reform of Croatian libel legislation

Publishing date: 13 July 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Media freedom and development
ZAGREB, 13 July 2004- The OSCE Mission to Croatia expressed concern that a journalist was yesterday sentenced to prison for libel. The Split Municipal Court sentenced journalist Ljubica Letinic to a two-month suspended prison term. The verdict is now...