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Internet freedom must be priority for policymakers, says OSCE media freedom representative
WASHINGTON DC, 24 May 2012 – Keeping the Internet free should be high on the agenda of international and human rights policy, said the OSCE Representative on Freedom Media Dunja Mijatović today at a conference organized by Google at the Newseum in Washington DC...
OSCE promotes discussion on Internet-related issues in Central Asia
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 18 May 2012 – A two-day regional forum on the Internet in Central Asia, co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Astana, began in Almaty today... ()
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes Dutch net neutrality law
VIENNA, 14 May 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, welcomed today the Netherlands’ passing of a net neutrality law, making it the first OSCE country to do so...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro and Faculty of Political Sciences to sign co-operation agreement tomorrow
PODGORICA, 14 May 2012 – The Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Ambassador Šarūnas Adomavičius and the Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Montenegro, Professor Sonja Tomović Šundić, will sign a co-operation agreement in Podgorica on Tuesday, 15 May...
OSCE media freedom representative condemns brutal attack against journalist in Greece and urges swift investigation
VIENNA, 11 May 2012 - The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today condemned the beating of Greek journalist Konstantinos Bogdanos, and called for a swift investigation by the authorities...
OSCE media representative сoncerned by detention of journalists, cyber attacks on media websites in Russia
VIENNA, 10 May 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed concern today over the indiscriminate detention of journalists reporting on street protests in Moscow and recent cyber attacks on Russian media websites... ()
Belarus president should halt harsh policy towards media, says OSCE media freedom representative
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 media freedom representative welcomes plans for new UK defamation law, says it will prevent ‘libel tourism’
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 media freedom representative concerned by Croatian public broadcaster HRT practice to silence critical journalists
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...