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OSCE representative urges South Caucasus governments to champion media freedom and pluralism following OSCE conference, meetings in Georgia

Publishing date: 23 November 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 23 November 2009- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, welcomed today increasing media independence in Georgia and backed calls for pluralistic licensing and media ownership transparency in the South Caucasus...

OSCE media freedom watchdog welcomes United Kingdom's decriminalization of defamation, urges other states to follow

Publishing date: 17 November 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 17 November 2009- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, commended the United Kingdom today for decriminalizing defamation...

OSCE Centre organizes media training for journalism students in Turkmenistan

Publishing date: 13 November 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Education, Media freedom and development
ASHGABAT, 13 November 2009- Fifteen journalism students at the Turkmenistan Institute for International Relations took part in an OSCE-initiated media training course that ends today in Ashgabat.

OSCE media freedom representative protests sentence handed down to Internet journalists in Azerbaijan

Publishing date: 11 November 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development, Media freedom on the internet, Rule of law, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 11 November 2009- Miklos Haraszti, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, described today's sentencing of two Azerbaijani bloggers to prison terms on charges of alleged hooliganism and infliction of light bodily injuries as political...

OSCE announces winners of video contest on civil society

Publishing date: 6 November 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development, National minority issues, Policing, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
VIENNA, 5 November 2009- The winners of a video contest highlighting civil society in action, launched by the OSCE to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain, were announced at the OSCE Permanent Council today...

OSCE Presence condemns violent attack against Albanian newspaper editor

Publishing date: 3 November 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development, Rule of law
TIRANA, 3 November 2009- The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Robert Bosch, condemned today a violent attack on the editor of the Tema newspaper...

OSCE Mission to Serbia and USAID organize debate on implementation of amended Public Information Law

Publishing date: 30 October 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development, Rule of law
BELGRADE, 30 October 2009- Around 40 representatives of Serbian ministries, the judiciary and leading media outlets are participating in a debate that started today on the implementation of the amended Law on Public Information...