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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE holds training seminar for new anti-trafficking hotline consultants
Publishing date: 13 December 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
KYIV, 13 December 2002- Today and tomorrow, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) are holding a two-day training seminar for consultants working for...
OSCE/ODIHR concerned about security of witness in high-profile trafficking case in Montenegro
Publishing date: 13 December 2002
Content type: Press release
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
WARSAW, 13 December 2002- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today expressed its concern about the security of the main witness in a high-profile anti-trafficking case in Montenegro...
Budva roundtable discusses treatment of long-term prisoners
Publishing date: 11 December 2002
Content type: Press release
What we do: Democratization
BELGRADE, 11 December 2002- High-level officials from justice ministries of six south-eastern Europe countries, legal experts and representatives of international organisations will participate in a roundtable on the "Treatment of...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office urges Serbian political leaders to remedy election failures
Publishing date: 10 December 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Elections
LISBON, 10 December 2002- While recognizing the orderly manner in which the repeat presidential election in the Republic of Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, was conducted, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Antonio Martins da Cruz...
International observers concerned about deepening political impasse after Serbia's second failed presidential election
Publishing date: 9 December 2002
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
BELGRADE, 9 December 2002- Following yesterday's repeat presidential election in Serbia, which again failed due to insufficient voter turnout, the international observers from the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and...
OSCE/ODIHR starts observation of presidential election in Montenegro
Publishing date: 2 December 2002
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
PODGORICA, 2 December 2002-- The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has established an Election Observation Mission to monitor the presidential election scheduled for 22 December in the Republic of Montenegro...
OSCE offers speedy care and advice to Albanian trafficking victims
Publishing date: 27 November 2002
Content type: Press release
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
TIRANA, 27 November 2002- Legal experts from the newly-formed OSCE Victims Assistance Team were on hand through the whole of Wednesday night offering immediate care and advice to victims of trafficking who had just been sent back from Italy. This...