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OSCE election observers not yet welcome in Belarus
Publishing date: 30 July 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WARSAW, 30 July 2001 (OSCE)- The Belarusian authorities today informed the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) that it should delay deployment of its Mission to observe the upcoming Presidential election...
OSCE/ODIHR and Russian Central Election Commission to co-operate in observing Belarus elections
Publishing date: 24 July 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WARSAW, 24 July 2001 (OSCE)- Ambassador Gerard Stoudmann, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), met today in Warsaw with Mr. Alexander Veshnyakov, Chairman of the Russian Federation Central Election...
Albanian elections: In remaining zones, third round highlights problems
Publishing date: 23 July 2001
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
TIRANA, 23 July 2001 (OSCE)-- The two weeks leading up to yesterday's third round of Albanian parliamentary elections served to highlight remaining electoral deficiencies, concluded the International Election Observation Mission...
OSCE organizes training on women's rights in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 20 July 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Human rights
SAMARKAND, 20 June 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Centre in Tashkent together with the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) will hold from 23 to 26 July a training on human rights report writing in Samarkand, Uzbekistan...
OSCE/ODIHR Roma contact point concerned about police violence against Roma in Slovakia, encourages remedial actions
Publishing date: 20 July 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues, Roma and Sinti
WARSAW, 20 July 2001 (OSCE)- The Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues of the OSCE\'s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is concerned about the recent manifestation of police violence in Slovakia which resulted in the death...
OSCE organizes anti-torture roundtable in Armenia
Publishing date: 17 July 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
YEREVAN, 17 July 2001 (OSCE)- Together with the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the OSCE organized on 13 and 14 July a roundtable in Yerevan, entitled \"Prevention and Prohibition of Torture, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment...
OSCE/ODIHR election observers to stay in Albania for 22 July vote
Publishing date: 13 July 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Elections
WARSAW, 13 July 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has decided that OSCE/ODIHR election observers will remain in Albania to monitor the election process and the preparations...