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Free media and Internet vital for ensuring security, says OSCE media freedom representative to participating States

Publishing date: 30 March 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development
Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, in a report of her Office’s work to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on 29 March 2012, highlighted the important role of safeguarding free media and free Internet while ensuring security...

OSCE/ODIHR report recommends further reforms on judge selection in Kyrgyzstan

Publishing date: 30 March 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Democratization, Rule of law
Further reforms to the process for selecting judges in Kyrgyzstan are needed to ensure an independent judiciary, according to an OSCE report presented in Bishkek on 30 March 2012...

OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan promotes development of entrepreneurship

Publishing date: 16 March 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Economic activities
TASHKENT, 16 March 2012 – Modernization of economic laws to deepen free market reforms and economic liberalization was discussed today in Tashkent at an OSCE-supported international roundtable meeting in the Uzbek Parliament...

OSCE Secretary General, in Skopje, condemns latest violence and welcomes authorities’ swift response

Publishing date: 13 March 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General, OSCE Mission to Skopje
SKOPJE, 13 March 2012 – The OSCE Secretary General, Lamberto Zannier, in Skopje today to meet government officials, condemned the recent series of violent incidents in the country and welcomed the authorities’ response...

OSCE media freedom representative welcomes release of Turkish journalists

Publishing date: 12 March 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 12 March 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today welcomed the release of four Turkish journalists from prison, including award-winning journalists Nedim Şener and Ahmet Şık...

Chair-in-Office Gilmore visits OSCE PA, reinforces value of parliamentary input to security

Publishing date: 9 March 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 9 March 2012 – Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore visited the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly International Secretariat today and expressed his support for parliamentarians being more closely involved in the comprehensive work of the OSCE...

OSCE media representative calls on Tajik authorities to lift ban on Facebook and news websites

Publishing date: 7 March 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media freedom on the internet
VIENNA, 7 March 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, appealed to the Government of Tajikistan today to reverse instructions to block the Facebook social media platform and four websites reporting on social and political affairs...