News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE media freedom representative says developments in Lithuania harmful to freedom of expression
Publishing date: 9 October 2013
VIENNA, 10 October 2013 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović expressed her concern today about the Radio and Television Commission’s decision to suspend the broadcasting of the First Baltic Channel’s (PBK) programmes for three months in Lithuania...
OSCE media freedom representative condemns parcel bomb delivery to Italian newspaper
Publishing date: 7 October 2013
VIENNA, 7 October 2013 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today condemned the delivery of a parcel bomb to the Turin headquarters of the daily newspaper La Stampa...
OSCE media freedom representative condemns attack against Azerbaijani journalists
Publishing date: 4 October 2013
VIENNA, 4 October 2013 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today condemned an attack on a group of journalists in Sabirabad region in central Azerbaijan and called on the authorities to carry out a swift investigation...
OSCE conference participants make recommendations on improving media environment in South East Europe
Publishing date: 1 October 2013
From 18 to 20 September 2013, more than 180 journalists, representatives of civil society, government and academics, along with international experts, gathered in Tirana, Albania, to take part in the 3rd South East Europe Media Conference...
OSCE Mission to Skopje organizes training for police public relations officers
Publishing date: 30 September 2013
The OSCE Mission to Skopje today concluded a workshop for 15 public relations officers at the Interior Ministry that took place from 28 to 30 September 2013. The aim of the event was to help the police to more effectively provide information to the public in times of crisis...
OSCE Office in Yerevan supported workshop for Armenian journalists on reporting about penal system
Publishing date: 30 September 2013
OSCE Office in Yerevan in co-operation with the non-governmental organization Helsinki Committee of Armenia organized a workshop on principles of reporting about penal system, for journalists from 28 to 29 September 2013 in Tsaghkadzor...
Second journalist detained in Russia must be set free, says OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 27 September 2013
VIENNA, 27 September 2013 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today called on the Russian authorities to release another journalist arrested while covering the Greenpeace action at Gazprom’s Prirazlomnaya platform...