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OSCE Mission to Skopje supports local media associations

Publishing date: 25 March 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Media freedom and development
SKOPJE, 25 March 2003- A training programme designed to help the development of media associations in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia was launched yesterday by the OSCE Mission in Skopje...

OSCE roundtable in Tajikistan focused on young people's access to information

Publishing date: 13 March 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Media freedom and development
GARM, TAJIKISTAN, 13 March 2003- Problems of young people relating to access to information and to the media were the main theme of a two-day OSCE roundtable organized in the Rasht Valley, eastern Tajikistan. This first roundtable on access...

OSCE Kosovo Mission sponsors multi-ethnic radio debates

Publishing date: 11 March 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development, National minority issues
PRISTINA, 11 March 2003- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo is sponsoring a series of live multi-ethnic radio debates on important issues for Kosovo, organized by Radio Vala Rinore (Prishtine/Pristina-94.7FM), in co-operation with four other...

Russian journalist wins OSCE Prize for Journalism and Democracy

Publishing date: 10 February 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
COPENHAGEN, 10 February 2003- The Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, is to receive this year's OSCE Prize for Journalism and Democracy for her courageous professional work in support of "human rights and freedom of the media"...

OSCE Media Representative concerned about continued harassment of media in Azerbaijan

Publishing date: 4 February 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development, Media pluralism, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 4 February 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, expressed his alarm today at the continuing use of defamation suits against independent newspapers in Azerbaijan and the growing frustration of journalists...

OSCE media watchdog criticises U.S. Patriot Act

Publishing date: 23 January 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 23 January 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, today criticised the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in the United States for monitoring...

POINT of publication: multi-ethnic Tetovo school paper hits streets

Publishing date: 22 January 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Media freedom and development, National minority issues
TETOVO, 22 January 2003- After a dummy issue in December, "POINT" finally came to the point of publication. The first edition of the first school newspaper edited and produced by a team of Macedonian, Albanian and Turkish youngsters was...