News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Montenegro condemns attack on journalists in Pljevlja
Publishing date: 5 October 2012
PODGORICA, 5 October 2012 – The Acting Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Waldemar Figaj, today condemned the assault on two newspaper journalists in the town of Pljevlja...
OSCE media freedom representative, in Moscow, discusses co-operation, media freedom
Publishing date: 4 October 2012
MOSCOW, 4 October 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today concluded a four-day official visit to Moscow, during which she discussed with high-level Russian officials safety of journalists, Internet freedom, media legislation and ways to enhance co-operation with her office...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes Ukrainian parliament’s decision rejecting re-criminalization of libel
Publishing date: 2 October 2012
MOSCOW, 2 October 2012- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, commended today the decision by the Verkhovna Rada (the parliament) of Ukraine to reject re-criminalization of defamation...
OSCE supports broader dialogue on digital broadcasting in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 27 September 2012
DUSHANBE, 27 September 2012 – Some 80 members of the Public Council under the President as well as invited experts and stakeholders discussed the switchover to digital terrestrial TV broadcast in Tajikistan at an OSCE-supported Social Partnership Club meeting today...
OSCE media freedom representative deplores Italian criminal defamation ruling, urges law reform
Publishing date: 27 September 2012
VIENNA, 27 September 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today called on the Italian authorities to reform libel laws following an Italian high court ruling upholding the criminal conviction and 14-month prison sentence imposed on Allessandro Sallusti, former editor of the newspaper Libero...
Greater independence in public broadcasting and broadcast regulation needed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, says OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 26 September 2012
VIENNA, 26 September 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Fletcher Burton and the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Bosnia and Herzegovina/EU Special Representative, Ambassador Peter Sørensen, today called for legal reforms to ensure the independence of the public service broadcasters and broadcast regulator in Bosnia and Herzegovina...
Freedom of information enhances government transparency, say participants at OSCE human rights conference
Publishing date: 25 September 2012
Participants at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw highlighted measures to promote free access to information held by governments, as well as the importance of providing legal protection to individuals who expose wrongdoing within organizations – so-called whistleblowers...