News and press releases

PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 10 December 2014 – The Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo Ambassador Jean-Claude Schlumberger expressed today his concern over an attack on newspaper editor and the head of the Association of Kosovo Journalists Zekirja Shabani...

The OSCE Centre in Astana supported a co-ordination meeting of The Right for Access to Information civil society coalition in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 8 December 2014. The meeting aimed to discuss the current national legislation and further promote the drafting and adoption of a law on access to information in compliance with international standards...

BASEL, Switzerland, 5 December 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today condemned the arrest of Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismailova...

BASEL, 5 December 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today called on the authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina to improve journalists’ rights following a probe launched to identify confidential sources...

As part of its support to the implementation of media reform, the OSCE Mission to Serbia, together with the Ministry of Culture and Information and the EU Delegation to Serbia, organized consultations between the relevant stakeholders and the authorities on 28 November in Arandjelovac...

The deteriorating situation for journalists’ safety and the growing phenomenon of propaganda pose serious threats to free media, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović said today when presenting her latest semi-annual report on media freedom developments in the OSCE region over the past six months...

VIENNA, 26 November 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said that a court injunction forcing the shutdown of the weekly magazine ADAMbol in Kazakhstan poses a threat to free media in the country.