News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Office in Yerevan presents awards to environmental journalists
Publishing date: 13 January 2004
YEREVAN, 13 January 2004- Awards for the best TV, radio programmes and newspaper articles on environmental issues were presented yesterday in the OSCE Office in Yerevan. "The media has a special role to play...
Human rights quiz offers prospect of a "Happy New Year" to inmates of women's prison in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 29 December 2003
DUSHANBE, 29 December 2003- A women's prison in Tajikistan was the unusual setting for a human rights quiz organized recently by the OSCE's Centre in Dushanbe and its Kulyab field office, in co-operation with the prison administration and municipal...
Journalism is more than a market product, says OSCE media watchdog in new study on media concentration in Europe
Publishing date: 18 December 2003
VIENNA, 18 December 2003- Media concentration and foreign media ownership might turn out to be a structural obstacle for free and pluralistic media, according to the OSCE's Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve...
OSCE media freedom representative and Council of Europe concerned over death of journalist in Ukraine
Publishing date: 18 December 2003
VIENNA/STRASBOURG, 18 December 2003- Walter Schwimmer, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, and Freimut Duve, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, voiced their concern today over the death of another journalist in Ukraine...
OSCE media freedom representative asks for release of Azeri journalist from prison
Publishing date: 4 December 2003
VIENNA, 4 December 2003- A leading European media watchdog, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, has requested Azeri authorities to release a journalist from prison. In a letter he sent to Foreign Minister Vilayat Guliyev...
9th OSCE Journalism and Democracy Prize goes to Committee to Protect Journalists
Publishing date: 1 December 2003
MAASTRICHT, 1 December 2003- The U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) will receive the 9th OSCE Prize for Journalism and Democracy, the President of the OSCE's Parliamentary Assembly, Bruce George, has announced today. "Granting CPJ...
OSCE Moldova Mission promotes responsible reporting on human trafficking
Publishing date: 24 November 2003
CHISINAU, 24 November 2003- With the aim of promoting reliable, responsible and sensitive media coverage of trafficking issues, the OSCE's Moldova Mission is holding a four-day workshop for journalists, with intensive training sections on...