News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Constitutional Court ruling important for advancing free speech, free media online in Turkey, says OSCE Representative
Publishing date: 3 October 2014
VIENNA, 3 October 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today welcomed the ruling by Turkey’s Constitutional Court to decrease the power of the country’s telecommunications authority, TİB, in blocking websites and monitoring Internet users...
OSCE Mission to Serbia awarded for promoting right of free access to information
Publishing date: 3 October 2014
On occasion of the International Right to Know Day, Ambassador Peter Burkhard, Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, collected an award from the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Protection of Personal Data Rodoljub Sabic, on 29 September 2014, for the Mission’s contribution to promoting the right of free access to information of public importance in Serbia...
OSCE presents survey on use of social media information by Armenian journalists
Publishing date: 2 October 2014
YEREVAN, 2 October 2014 – The “Region” Research Centre of Armenia, supported by the OSCE Office in Yerevan, today presented the results of a survey on how Armenian journalists use information from social media...
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media addresses writers from around the world at 80th PEN Congress
Publishing date: 30 September 2014
In a keynote speech opening the 80th PEN International Congress in Bishkek, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, emphasized free media and free expression as vital instruments for a secure and peaceful world...
Journalists’ rights in Armenia must be ensured, says OSCE Representative
Publishing date: 30 September 2014
BISHKEK, 30 September 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today called on the Armenian authorities to bring to justice those responsible for attacks on journalists and to end the climate of impunity following another case of the obstruction of a journalist’s work in Yerevan...
OSCE Representative lauds ruling that finds illegal monitoring of journalists in Norway
Publishing date: 30 September 2014
BISHKEK, 30 September 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today welcomed a decision by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) responding to the Armed Forces’ illegal registration of nine investigative journalists...
Killing, intimidation and detention of journalists in eastern Ukraine is not acceptable, say Ukrainian and Russian journalists’ representatives
Publishing date: 29 September 2014
Collections: Two Countries – One Profession: A dialogue between journalists’ organizations from Russia and Ukraine
BISHKEK, 29 September 2014 – Representatives of Ukrainian and Russian journalists’ unions condemned the killing, beating and detention of journalists in the zone of armed conflict in eastern Ukraine in a meeting organized by OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović on 26 September in Vienna...