News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Office in Baku launches information sessions on non-interference in the electoral process
Publishing date: 9 July 2008
BAKU, 9 July 2008- The OSCE Office in Baku today opened a series of one-day information sessions for leaders of local election authorities on non-interference in the electoral process...
OSCE media freedom representative urges Belarus not to adopt restrictive media law
Publishing date: 27 June 2008
VIENNA, 27 June 2008- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, today called on the upper chamber of Belarus's parliament not to adopt a draft law that would further restrict media freedom in the country...
OSCE states agree Secretary General will serve second three-year term
Publishing date: 25 June 2008
VIENNA, 25 June 2008- The OSCE's Secretary General, Ambassador Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, will serve a second three-year term, the Foreign Ministers of the Organization's 56 participating States agreed today...
OSCE media freedom representative protests prison sentence handed to publisher of book on Turkish history
Publishing date: 19 June 2008
VIENNA, 19 June 2008- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today condemned the five-month prison sentence handed down to Turkish publisher Ragip Zarakolu for "insulting the institutions of the Turkish Republic"...
OSCE Mission to Serbia supports regional conference on media, marketing and business
Publishing date: 18 June 2008
BELGRADE, 18 June 2008- More than a hundred media professionals and experts from the region gathered in Belgrade today to discuss the media business environment and ways to improve regional co-operation in the field...
OSCE media freedom official expresses concern about campaign against Radio Free Europe, detention of journalist in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 17 June 2008
VIENNA, 17 June 2008- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, expressed today concern about recent cases of intimidation and harassment of non-governmental journalists in Uzbekistan...
Re-runs held free of violence, but overall process falls short of some key commitments, say observers in Skopje
Publishing date: 16 June 2008
SKOPJE, 16 June 2008- Yesterday's re-run elections gave voters in areas affected by serious irregularities on 1 June the opportunity to express their will in a secure and generally calmer environment, which represents considerable improvement...