News and press releases

ISTANBUL, 8 May 2014 – OSCE Media Freedom Representative Dunja Mijatović today welcomed a court decision lifting an order banning journalist Aksana Panova from working as a journalist...

ISTANBUL, 7 May 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today condemned attacks on journalists covering public protests in Baku on 6-7 May...

Key challenges in ensuring the independence and accountability of associations, as well as providing for their funding, were the focus of a roundtable discussion organized in Warsaw by ODIHR and the Venice Commission on 6 and 7 May 2014.

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, along with the three special rapporteurs on media freedom from United Nations, the Organization of American States and the African Commission on Human and People’s rights, launched on 6 May 2014 a joint declaration on universality and the right to freedom of expression.

From 5 May to 6 June 2014 the OSCE Mission is organizing ten study trips to a number of historic and religious sites in Kosovo for some 500 secondary school students from Deçan/Dečane, Ferizaj/Uroševac, Gračanica/Graçanicë, Istog/Istok, Leposavić/Leposaviq, Lipjan/Lipljan, Novo Brdo/Novobërdë, Prizren, Rahovec/Orahovac and Skenderaj/Srbica...

A four-day training seminar on more efficient and transparent project management for more than 20 middle-level staff of Kazakhstan’s Prosecutor General’s Office began on 2 May 2014 in Astana.

From 5 to 12 May 2014, the OSCE Mission and the Kosovo Police will organize a series of four workshops to encourage women and communities in Kosovo to join the police ranks.