News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE media freedom representative concerned over prison sentences for defamation in Italy, reiterates her call to decriminalize libel
Publishing date: 27 May 2013
VIENNA, 27 May 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed concern today about prison sentences handed down to three journalists in Italy for libel...
OSCE media freedom representative concerned about proposed public information law in Denmark
Publishing date: 22 May 2013
STOCKHOLM, 23 May 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today expressed concern over parts of Denmark’s new public information law that would restrict the public’s access to information in the legislative process...
Internet vital for free expression and free media, says OSCE media freedom representative at Stockholm Internet Forum
Publishing date: 22 May 2013
Speaking at the Stockholm Internet Forum on 22 May 2013, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, stressed that technology does not change fundamental freedoms...
OSCE media freedom representative concerned about increasing pressure on media in Azerbaijan following online defamation provisions
Publishing date: 15 May 2013
WARSAW, 15 May 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today expressed deep concern about the increasingly hostile situation for the media in Azerbaijan following moves to extend the criminalization of defamation to the Internet...
OSCE media freedom representative distressed about U.S. Justice Department seizure of reporters’ phone records
Publishing date: 14 May 2013
WARSAW, 14 May 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today said she was distressed over revelations that in 2012 the U.S. Department of Justice secretly seized two months of office, home and cell phone records from up to 20 phone lines assigned to The Associated Press reporters...
Good laws, political leadership necessary for media freedom, says OSCE Permanent Council Chair, in Warsaw
Publishing date: 13 May 2013
WARSAW, 13 May 2013 –The implementation of good laws and sharing of best practices are essential to fulfilling OSCE commitments on media freedom, the Chair of the OSCE Permanent Council, Ambassador Ihor Prokopchuk of Ukraine, told participants at a human dimension seminar on media freedom legal framework today...
OSCE media freedom representative urges Romanian authorities to finalize decriminalization of libel
Publishing date: 7 May 2013
VIENNA, 7 May 2013 – OSCE media freedom representative Dunja Mijatović expressed concern today over a recent decision of the Constitutional Court that prevents the decriminalization of speech offenses in Romania and called for a Constitutional amendment to ban criminal defamation...