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Proposals to regulate Internet could threaten freedom of expression, warns OSCE media freedom representative

Publishing date: 28 September 2011
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, Media laws
VIENNA, 28 September 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, voiced concern today about Internet regulation policies proposed by several participating States and reminded them of their OSCE media freedom commitments...

Religious communities should be able to register freely and without restriction, say participants at OSCE human rights conference

Publishing date: 28 September 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
Participants at the OSCE's annual human rights conference in Warsaw urged governments not to use registration procedures to prevent religious communities from exercising their rights to freedom of religion or belief...

OSCE/ODIHR launches new guides on freedom of assembly and association

Publishing date: 27 September 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented two new guides to promote respect for the freedom of assembly and association in the margins of the annual OSCE human rights conference in Warsaw on 27 September 2011...

OSCE survey: We want to hear your views on security

Publishing date: 27 September 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
We want to hear your views on security and the role of the OSCE. Please take 5 minutes to complete our short survey. Click here to take the survey.

Media freedom representative urges governments to keep Internet free, protect journalists against violence

Publishing date: 26 September 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Media freedom and development
The Internet has fundamentally changed societies for the better and should remain free, said OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, as she addressed diplomats and representatives of human rights non-governmental organizations at the annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting...

OSCE Mission to Serbia supports community policing training

Publishing date: 26 September 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Policing
Some 50 police officers from 27 regional police directorates will be trained in community policing principles during a two- week course for Community Liaison Officers, in Vrnjacka Banja from 26 September to 7 October 2011. The OSCE Mission to Serbia is holding the event together with the Interior Ministry...

OSCE Centre trains interior ministry troops at Kambar-Ata 2 hydropower station

Publishing date: 26 September 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Countering terrorism
A 10-day training course supported by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek to enhance security of the Kambar –Ata 2 hydropower station in central Kyrgyzstan started on 26 September 2011...