News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Media Freedom Representative welcomes new initiative aiming to strengthen media self-regulation in North Macedonia
Publishing date: 18 December 2019
VIENNA, 18 December 2019 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, expressed his support for the registry on self-regulation of online media in North Macedonia, which was announced today by the Council of Media Ethics together with the Association of Journalists of Macedonia and the Economic Chamber...
It’s time for women to lead in politics, say participants in ODIHR Finland/Poland roundtable
Publishing date: 17 December 2019
Now is the time for women to boost their representation in political leadership positions, said politicians, government officials, diplomats, civil society representatives and activists from Poland and Finland, who gathered in Warsaw on 17 December 2019 to explore ways of increasing women’s
OSCE PA’s Eidsheim highlights developments in the Arctic and opportunities for co-operation
Publishing date: 16 December 2019
ROVANIEMI, Finland, 16 December 2019 – The OSCE PA Special Representative on Arctic Issues, Torill Eidsheim (MP, Norway), delivered today a keynote address to the Sub-Committee on External Relations of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), convened in Rovaniemi, Finland, for a meeting on developments in the Arctic region and opportunities for international co-operation...
OSCE Media Freedom Representative expresses hope that all who perpetrated and ordered the murder of Pavlo Sheremet in Ukraine are brought to justice
Publishing date: 13 December 2019
VIENNA, 13 December 2019 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, expressed his hope that the perpetrators of, and masterminds behind, the murder of the journalist Pavlo Sheremet will soon be identified and brought to justice, after the Ukrainian authorities declared five persons to be suspects...
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media highly concerned by disproportionate defamation claims against three media outlets in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 13 December 2019
VIENNA, 13 December 2019 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, raised his concerns today at the disproportionate damages of more than 320,000 US dollars demanded in a defamation suit against the Kyrgyzstan media organizations Azattyk (the Kyrgyz-language service of the international broadcaster RFE/RL), Kloop.kg and 24.kg...
A full and comprehensive ceasefire crucial for success and implementation of security measures, says OSCE SMM Chief Monitor to OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 13 December 2019
VIENNA, 13 December 2019- The commitment undertaken at the Normandy Four Summit in Paris to achieve a full and comprehensive implementation of the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine by the end of 2019 is encouraging, said OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Chief Monitor, Yaşar Halit Çevik, in his address to the OSCE Permanent Council yesterday in Vienna...
Drafting 2020-2021 Action Plan for Montenegro’s Youth Strategy focus of OSCE-supported seminar
Publishing date: 9 December 2019
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized a two-day training course to help the Ministry of Sports and Youth to develop a third Action Plan for the implementation of the Government’s Youth Strategy 2017–2021 on 2 and 3 December 2019 in Budva.