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Journalists’ safety and media ethics identified as continued top media freedom priorities in Western Balkans at high-level conference in Vienna

Publishing date: 27 February 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 27 February 2017- Ensuring the safety of journalists and promoting media ethics are top priorities for protecting media freedom and enhancing comprehensive security, peace and democracy across the entire OSCE region, participants at an OSCE Chairmanship conference on media freedom in the Western Balkans agreed today...

Head of OSCE Mission to Montenegro meets Interior Minister to discuss co-operation and reforms

Publishing date: 27 February 2017
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro
What we do: Democratization, Policing
The newly-appointed Head of OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Ambassador Maryse Daviet met with the country’s Interior Minister Mevludin Nuhodzic in Podgorica on 22 February 2017, and assessed the co-operation between the Mission and the Ministry as successful, emphasizing that Montenegro has made strong progress in reforms. She expressed the Mission’s readiness to continue supporting Montenegro’s democratic development...

Ukrainian gender caucus, ODIHR commit to further co-operation to advance equality between women and men

Publishing date: 23 February 2017
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization
The Equal Opportunities Caucus, a cross-faction union at the Ukrainian parliament, and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) formally committed on 23 February 2017 to continue co-operation to support national efforts towards gender equality.

OSCE supports fourth annual Prison Forum in Kazakhstan

Publishing date: 23 February 2017
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Rule of law
The OSCE-supported Fourth Prison Forum dedicated to the assessment of the results of the prison reform and presentation of a new government project on the prevention of torture took place on 23 February 2017 in Astana...

Office of the High Commissioner on National Minorities pledges to continue supporting integration in Moldova

Publishing date: 23 February 2017
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues
The implementation of Moldova’s Strategy for Consolidation of Inter-ethnic Relations 2017¬¬¬–2027 was discussed at a conference organized by the office of the High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) and the Bureau of Inter-ethnic Relations in Chisinau on 16 February 2017...

OSCE media freedom representative welcomes release of editor in Uzbekistan

Publishing date: 22 February 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 22 February 2017 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today welcomed the release in Uzbekistan of Muhammed Bekjanov, the former chief editor of the opposition newspaper Erk...

OSCE Mission assists Serbian authorities in strengthening victim and witness support system

Publishing date: 22 February 2017
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Rule of law
The OSCE Mission to Serbia, the Republic Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Victimology Society of Serbia NGO marked the European Day for Victims of Crime with a conference held in Belgrade on 22 February 2017...