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Montenegro’s Working group on media self-regulation adopts new journalists’ Code of Ethics, discusses future steps
Publishing date: 25 November 2015
Content type: Press release
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media self-regulation
VIENNA, 25 November 2015 – At a roundtable discussion today organized by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, members of the Working Group on Self-Regulation in Montenegro adopted their newly-amended Journalists’ Code of Ethics, and also agreed to hold a follow-up roundtable discussion in Podgorica...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 24 November 2015
Publishing date: 25 November 2015
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The SMM recorded a significant increase of ceasefire violations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including at Donetsk airport. Some of the explosions and gunfire observed were assessed as training or demining activities. The SMM observed long queues of civilian vehicles waiting at government-controlled checkpoints at the contact line and at border crossing points between Ukraine and the Russian Federation...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and OSCE Secretary General strongly condemn deadly attack on bus in Tunisia, urge redoubling efforts against terrorism
Publishing date: 25 November 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretary General
What we do: Countering terrorism
BELGRADE, 25 November 2015 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier today strongly condemned the deadly attack on a bus in Tunisia, which killed at least 12 and wounded 17 officers of the presidential guard...
Independence of judiciary in focus of OSCE seminar in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 25 November 2015
ASHGABAT, 25 November 2015 – International standards and best practices on the independence of the judiciary are the focus of an OSCE-supported three-day seminar that opened in Ashgabat today...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes new law on access to information in Kazakhstan, but says drawbacks still exist
Publishing date: 25 November 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws
VIENNA, 25 November 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said the new law on access to information in Kazakhstan is a major step toward greater transparency and accountability of public bodies, but she also noted that the law still has some shortcomings...
Officials from Central Asia travel to Bosnia and Herzegovina on OSCE-supported visit to learn more about reducing threat of explosive hazards
Publishing date: 25 November 2015
Best practices in reducing and responding to the threat of explosive hazards was the focus of an OSCE-supported three-day visit by a delegation from three Central Asian countries to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), which concluded on 19 November 2015...
OSCE Special Representative stresses human rights approach to fight trafficking in persons and protect victims
Publishing date: 24 November 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
MONTREUX, Switzerland, 24 November 2015 – In her keynote address at the Informal Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Seminar on Human Rights, OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Madina Jarbussynova, today outlined the importance of a human rights approach to combating trafficking in persons.