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OSCE media watchdog notes improvements in Armenian media legislation, calls for more pluralism

Publishing date: 21 June 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media pluralism
YEREVAN, 21 June 2006- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, said today that Armenia has made significant progress in improving media legislation, but actual media pluralism remained limited to the print media...

OSCE media watchdog to survey sanctions against press for publishing classified information or not revealing sources

Publishing date: 30 May 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media pluralism, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 30 May 2006- The Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media will produce a database of rules, sanctions for disseminating unauthorised information, protection of sources and other laws affecting...

OSCE Office in Baku condemns violent attack on journalist

Publishing date: 19 May 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Rule of law
BAKU, 19 May 2006- The Head of OSCE Office in Baku today condemned a brutal attack on Bahaddin Khaziyev, the Editor-in-Chief of opposition the Bizim Yol (Our Path) newspaper and the Deputy Chairman of Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan...

OSCE Centre supports conference on tourism in Turkmenistan

Publishing date: 3 May 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Economic activities
ASHGABAD, 3 May 2006- Current and future challenges facing the tourism industry in Turkmenistan are the focus of a two-day conference that began today in Ashgabad. Organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabad and...

OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities welcomes launch of online service by public broadcaster in Skopje

Publishing date: 20 April 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: National minority issues
The HAGUE, 20 April 2006- The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities welcomed the launching today in Skopje of the Public Broadcaster's new multilingual internet portal which provides news and information in local and foreign languages...

OSCE Chairman encourages Tajik Government to push ahead with democratic reforms

Publishing date: 30 March 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Democratization, Elections, Gender equality, Media freedom and development
DUSHANBE, 30 March 2006- Continuing his trip in Central Asia, the Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister, Karel De Gucht, visited Tajikistan on Thursday and met with President Emomali Rakhmonov, Foreign Minister...

OSCE clarifies news agency stories on visit to Guantanamo

Publishing date: 9 March 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Human rights, Countering terrorism
VIENNA, 9 March 2006- An OSCE Spokesperson responded today to several misleading news agency stories about the visit of a delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE to the detention centre at the US naval base of Guantanamo. The stories...