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Young journalists at OSCE Academy in Bishkek discuss media issues with German Minister
Publishing date: 28 August 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Media freedom and development
Students of the Central Asian School of Contemporary Journalism of the OSCE Academy and the Deutsche Welle Akademie, a summer school for young journalists, met Federal Minister for Economic Co-operation and Development of Germany Dirk Niebel in Bishkek on 26 August 2012...
Armenian teachers complete one-year human rights training course supported by OSCE Office
Publishing date: 17 August 2012
Twenty-two secondary school teachers of social sciences from various Armenian regions are participating in a six-day training session in Tsaghkadzor in the Kotayk province of Armenia that concludes on 18 August 2012...
OSCE media freedom representative calls for ‘teddy bear’ charges against Belarusian journalist to be dropped
Publishing date: 8 August 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 8 August 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today asked Belarusian authorities to drop charges against Anton Suryapin, who faces up to seven years in prison for uploading photos of teddy bears that had been released by plane into Belarus...
OSCE media freedom representative issues legal analysis of Moldova digitalization plan
Publishing date: 3 August 2012
Content type: News
What we do: Media freedom and development
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, presented on 3 August 2012 to the Moldovan government a legal analysis of the proposed plan to switch from analogue to digital broadcasting in Moldova...
OSCE Mission to Serbia supports opening of information centre, library for police trainees
Publishing date: 3 August 2012
An interactive information centre and a library established with the support of the OSCE Mission to Serbia opened in the Basic Police Training Centre in Sremska Kamenica on 3 August 2012...
OSCE media freedom representative calls for pardon of journalist imprisoned in Serbia
Publishing date: 2 August 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 2 August 2012 – Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today called upon Serbia’s president, Tomislav Nikolić, to pardon journalist Laszlo Szasz, following his imprisonment for insult...
OSCE trains Transdniestrian lawyers on European Court of Human Rights
Publishing date: 1 August 2012
The OSCE Mission to Moldova organized a training event on the European Court of Human Rights for 25 lawyers, civil society representatives and journalists from Transdniestria from 27 to 29 July 2012...