News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Central Asia journalists discuss public-service broadcasting, digitalization at OSCE media conference
Publishing date: 17 October 2008
ALMATY, 17 October 2008- The future of public-service broadcasting and how the digital switchover can support media freedom and pluralism was the focus of the 10th OSCE Central Asia Media Conference, which concluded in Almaty today...
OSCE Office donates bomb-defusing robot to Tajik Interior Ministry
Publishing date: 16 October 2008
DUSHANBE, 16 October 2008- The OSCE Office in Tajikistan donated a robot to the Tajik Interior Ministry to assist police bomb squads in dealing with improvised explosive devices...
OSCE media freedom representative urges Uzbek government to dismiss journalist's 10-year prison sentence
Publishing date: 15 October 2008
VIENNA, 15 October 2008- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, today asked the Uzbek government to review on appeal the 10-year prison sentence handed to well-known journalist Salidzhon Abdurakhmanov...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes acquittal of Hungarian journalist in secrecy case, urges legislative reforms
Publishing date: 1 October 2008
BUDAPEST, 1 October 2008- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media welcomed today's acquittal of Hungarian journalist Antonia Radi and called on the country's authorities to carry out legislative reforms on disclosing official secrets...
OSCE hosts Europe's largest human rights and democracy conference in Warsaw
Publishing date: 29 September 2008
WARSAW, 29 September 2008- Government representatives, experts and human rights defenders from the OSCE's 56 participating States gathered in Warsaw today for the opening of Europe's largest human rights and democracy conference...
OSCE media freedom representative urges Bulgarian authorities to swiftly prosecute violent attacks against journalists
Publishing date: 26 September 2008
VIENNA, 26 September 2008- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, today asked the Bulgarian authorities to accelerate the bringing to justice of perpetrators of recent violent attacks against journalists...
OSCE Mission to Skopje, FOSIM mark International Right to Know Day
Publishing date: 25 September 2008
Skopje, 25 September 2008-The OSCE Mission to Skopje and the local foundation of the Open Society Institute are marking International Right to Know Day with a conference today encouraging journalists to make use of rights to free access to information...