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Greater media independence needed in South East Europe, say OSCE conference participants
BELGRADE, 21 September 2012 – Safeguarding and promoting media freedom was the focus of the Second OSCE South East Europe Media Conference that finished in Belgrade today... ()
OSCE media freedom representative visits Serbia, urges government to speed up media reforms
BELGRADE, 20 September 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today urged the Serbian government to accelerate reforms to safeguard media freedom... ()
OSCE media freedom representative calls on police in U.S. to respect journalists’ rights when covering Occupy Wall Street
VIENNA, 19 September 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, today expressed concern once again about police treatment of the media covering demonstrations marking the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City...
Ukraine plans to re-criminalize defamation a ‘setback’, warns OSCE media freedom representative
VIENNA, 19 September 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, expressed concern today over legislative steps towards re-criminalizing defamation in Ukraine... ()
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media to hold South East Europe media conference in Belgrade
BELGRADE, 18 September 2012 – The Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media will hold the second South East Europe Media Conference on 20 and 21 September in Belgrade...
Poland should abolish criminal defamation, says OSCE media freedom representative following conviction of editor
VIENNA, 17 September 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today criticised a criminal conviction of Robert Frycz, the editor of Antykomor.pl website, for insulting the President of Poland, and called for decriminalization of defamation in the country...
OSCE media freedom representative to meet Serbian government, media NGOs in Belgrade on 18-19 September
VIENNA, 14 September 2012 - The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, will pay her first official visit to Belgrade on 18 and 19 September to meet top government officials, media policymakers, NGO representatives and journalists...
Lawsuit against Hungarian journalist can have chilling effect on Internet freedom, warns OSCE media freedom representative
VIENNA, 12 September 2012 – Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today warned that the lawsuit initiated by the official Hungarian News Agency against journalist György Balavany can constrain media pluralism on the Internet...
OSCE in Moldova holds summer school for journalists on political party financing
VADUL LUI VODA, Moldova, 6 September 2012 – The OSCE Mission to Moldova, in co-operation with the Chisinau-based NGO IDIS Viitorul opened today a two-day summer school for journalists on public financing of political parties and the role of media in raising transparency in political funding, in Vadul Lui Voda. The summer school brings together journalists from the right and left banks of the Dniestr/Nistru River, and Moldova’s autonomous territory of Gagauzia... ()