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OSCE Youth Summit opens in Ukraine with focus on diversity, peaceful development, stability
CRIMEA, Ukraine, 20 July 2013 – The OSCE Youth Summit, organized by the Ukrainian OSCE Chairmanship, started today in the International Children’s Center “Artek” in Crimea, bringing together more than 500 young people from across the OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation... ()
Welcoming release of Belarusian journalist Irina Khalip, OSCE media freedom representative calls for improvement of media freedom situation
VIENNA, 19 July 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, welcomed today’s decision by a court in Minsk to lift the restrictions imposed on Belarusian journalist, Irina Khalip... ()
Criminal punishment for critical journalism has chilling effect on free speech in Turkey, says OSCE media freedom representative
VIENNA, 19 July 2013 – The prison sentence meted out to journalist Ahmet Altan for insulting Prime Minister Erdoğan in one of his articles will further restrict free speech in Turkey, Dunja Mijatović, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, said today...
OSCE human rights chief calls on Czech authorities to address segregation and social exclusion to help prevent anti-Roma incidents
WARSAW, 18 July 2013 ─ Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), expressed concern today over recent extremist demonstrations and attempted attacks on Roma residents in České Budějovice and Duchcov in the Czech Republic...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes UN Security Council action to improve safety of journalists
VIENNA, 17 July 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today welcomed the UN Security Council’s initiative to enhance the implementation of UNSC Resolution 1738, strengthening the safety of journalists... ()
OSCE Chairperson welcomes appointment of Astrid Thors as OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
KYIV, 17 July 2013 - The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara, welcomed the appointment of Finnish politician Astrid Thors as OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. Thors has been a Member of the Parliament of Finland since 2004. She has also served as a Minister of Migration and European Affairs of Finland and was a Member of the European Parliament. Her appointment as OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities was a consensus decision of all 57 OSCE participating States... ()
Press Release by the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group
VIENNA, 13 July 2013 - The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Jacques Faure of France, and Ian Kelly of the United States of America) and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, conducted a series of meetings in June and July to further develop ideas for a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict...
OSCE meeting opens with call to strengthen rule of law to protect human rights
VIENNA, 11 July 2013 – Governments should take steps to further strengthen the rule of law to better protect human rights, participants said today at the opening of the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting in Vienna...
OSCE media freedom representative and Minister Ivanovski agree on improvements to draft media law
VIENNA, 10 July 2013 – The OSCE media freedom representative, Dunja Mijatović, today discussed the draft Law on Media and Audiovisual Services with the Minister of Information Society and Administration, Ivo Ivanovski who arrived in Vienna from Skopje today...