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OSCE media freedom representative concerned about increasing pressure on media in Azerbaijan following online defamation provisions
Publishing date: 15 May 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
WARSAW, 15 May 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today expressed deep concern about the increasingly hostile situation for the media in Azerbaijan following moves to extend the criminalization of defamation to the Internet...
Afghan, Tajik customs officers complete OSCE, Austrian Finance Ministry training on customs risk management
Publishing date: 15 May 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management
DUSHANBE, 15 May 2013- Today, seventeen senior and mid-level Afghan and Tajik customs officers successfully completed a week-long training course on customs risk management in prevention of smuggling trends and money laundering...
OSCE Mission presents report on implementation of legislation on civil society and public sector co-operation in Montenegro
Publishing date: 15 May 2013
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro presented a 2012 annual report on how the authorities have implemented legislation that relates to their co-operation with civil society on 14 May 2013 in Podgorica...
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister addresses OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 14 May 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council
VIENNA, 14 May 2013 – The Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov, addressed representatives of the 57 OSCE participating States today in Vienna...
OSCE media freedom representative distressed about U.S. Justice Department seizure of reporters’ phone records
Publishing date: 14 May 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws, Safety of journalists
WARSAW, 14 May 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today said she was distressed over revelations that in 2012 the U.S. Department of Justice secretly seized two months of office, home and cell phone records from up to 20 phone lines assigned to The Associated Press reporters...
OSCE Centre promotes migration management in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 14 May 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Economic activities, Migration
SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan, 14 May 2013- An OSCE-supported regional workshop, comprised of a seminar on improving the regulation of migration policies at the local level, and a training event on best practices in the integration of migrants, started in Shymkent in south Kazakhstan today...
ODIHR reviews Armenia’s draft Criminal Procedure Code
Publishing date: 14 May 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Rule of law
The draft Criminal Procedure Code of Armenia generally complies with international standards, although certain provisions could benefit from further consideration, concludes an opinion published by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 14 May 2013...