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OSCE Chairperson meets with OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs
KYIV, 14 June 2013 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara received today 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 as well as the Personal Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office on the conflict dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk... ()
OSCE Security Days conference to start in Vienna on Monday
VIENNA, 14 June 2013 – The role of the OSCE in the modern security landscape, addressing challenges and role of social media in enhancing security will be in focus at the OSCE Security Days conference that will start in Vienna on Monday...
Greater efforts, co-operation needed to ensure security of Jewish communities, say participants at OSCE conference in Berlin
BERLIN, 13 June 2013 – Violent attacks and threats motivated by anti-Semitism affect the day-to-day lives of Jewish communities all across the OSCE region, and these communities are in need of protection from these threats and the harmful impact they have on their religious and cultural activities and on their human rights, said participants at an expert OSCE conference in Berlin today...
Fulfilling media-freedom commitments requires mustered political will, says OSCE Representative to participating States
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, told participating States on 13 June 2013 in Vienna that political will needs to be mustered to fulfil commitments on Internet freedom and journalists’ safety...
Students complete OSCE-supported teaching practice
Fourteen future teachers received certificates after completing a training course supported by the OSCE Mission to Skopje at a ceremony on 13 June 2013 in country’s eastern city of Shtip...
Closure of public service broadcaster could endanger media pluralism in Greece, warns OSCE media freedom representative
VIENNA, 12 June 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, warned today that the closure of Greece’s public service broadcaster, ERT, could deprive citizens of a diversity of views, and it creates economic hardship for the dismissed journalists...
OSCE Secretary General, in Kyiv, meets President, Foreign Minister of Ukraine
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier visited Kyiv from 10 to 11 June 2013 where he met with President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara...
Participants at high-level OSCE conference in Kyiv call for stronger anti-trafficking action
KYIV, 10 June 2013 – Ways to strengthen the OSCE participating States’ response to human trafficking in terms of the prevention of the crime, prosecution of offenders and protection of victims are the focus of a high-level conference that started in Kyiv today... ()
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights and OSCE media freedom representative concerned at further restrictions to free expression in Azerbaijan
COLOGNE/STRASBOURG, 6 June 2013 - The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muižnieks, and the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed serious concern today at the promulgation by the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, of amendments extending the application of criminal defamation provisions to online expression on 4 June 2013... ()
OSCE media freedom representative expresses concern about police treatment of media at “Blockupy” protests in Germany
COLOGNE, Germany, 6 June 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed today concern about police treatment of the media covering demonstrations in Frankfurt...