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OSCE and ICCT hold expert seminar on artificial intelligence, preventing and countering violent extremism to discuss challenges and opportunities
Publishing date: 15 March 2024
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism, Media freedom and development
On 14 March 2024, the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department and the Office of the Representative on the Freedom of the Media (RFoM) held an expert meeting to discuss challenges and opportunities affiliated with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism (P/CVERLT). The meeting, which took place in Тhe Hague, the Netherlands, was organized in close co-operation with the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT).
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Kurz receives civil society recommendations ahead of Vienna Ministerial Council
Publishing date: 6 December 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Secretary General
What we do: Human rights, Countering terrorism, Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 6 December 2017 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz today received civil society’s recommendations to the OSCE executive structures and participating States, on the eve of the 24th OSCE Ministerial Council. The recommendations were adopted by more than 100 NGO representatives who met during the Parallel Civil Society Conference, which was organized by the Civic Solidarity Platform, a coalition of NGOs from across the OSCE region, in Vienna on 5 and 6 December...
Human rights must be guaranteed when fighting violent extremism online, participants at OSCE workshop in Sarajevo say
Publishing date: 8 September 2016
Content type: Press release
SARAJEVO, 8 September 2016 – Laws and policies on content blocking, surveillance and other online measures to counter terrorism must also safeguard the fundamental right to free expression online, according to participants at an OSCE-sponsored two-day event in Sarajevo, which ended today...
Media freedom must be ensured while combatting terrorism, say participants of OSCE workshop in Bucharest
Publishing date: 7 October 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism, Media freedom and development
BUCHAREST, 7 October 2015 – The media and counter-terrorism officials have a shared responsibility to work together to protect media freedom while developing effective policies to counter terrorism, said participants at the start of a two-day workshop organized in Bucharest today by the OSCE with the support of the Romanian Foreign Ministry...
OSCE condemns bomb attack on Serbian journalist
Publishing date: 16 April 2007
Content type: Press release
What we do: Democratization, Countering terrorism, Media freedom and development
BELGRADE, 16 April 2007- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Hans Ola Urstad, today condemned this weekend's bomb attack on the Serbian journalist Dejan Anastasijevic, and called for quick action in bringing the perpetrator(s) to justice.