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More than 100 parliamentarians to meet for economic conference in Batumi, Georgia President Saakashvili to address opening session
Publishing date: 10 May 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 10 May 2012 – Nearly 250 participants including more than 100 parliamentarians from 30 countries will convene in Batumi, Georgia 11-14 May for a conference focused on fostering economic co-operation, sustainable development and stability in the OSCE region...
Belarus president should halt harsh policy towards media, says OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 10 May 2012
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
VIENNA, 10 May 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, today appealed to Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko to stop persecuting media...
OSCE/ODIHR presents final report on presidential and municipal elections in Bulgaria
Publishing date: 9 May 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
An expert team from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented, from 7 to 9 May 2012 in Sofia, the final report of the Limited Election Observation Mission to the October 2011 presidential and municipal elections in Bulgaria...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes plans for new UK defamation law, says it will prevent ‘libel tourism’
Publishing date: 9 May 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 9 May 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, welcomed today a new defamation bill announced by the Queen in the UK Parliament, saying it would augment media freedom in the UK and in other OSCE participating States...
OSCE/ODIHR expert panel explores challenges to freedom of peaceful assembly
Publishing date: 8 May 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
Challenges in promoting freedom of peaceful assembly in the OSCE area are the focus of a two-day meeting of an expert panel which opened in Warsaw on 8 May 2012...
OSCE Mission in Kosovo welcomes decision to review criminal code provisions relating to media
Publishing date: 8 May 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 8 May 2012 – The Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Werner Almhofer, welcomed today the decision to return for review to the Assembly of Kosovo certain provisions of the new criminal code in Kosovo that threaten to diminish media freedom...
OSCE media freedom representative concerned by Croatian public broadcaster HRT practice to silence critical journalists
Publishing date: 8 May 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 8 May 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, said today she was very concerned that HRT, the Croatian Public Service Broadcaster, would dismiss journalists critical of the media freedom situation in Croatia...