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OSCE Media Freedom Representative welcomes plans for press freedom improvements in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 21 April 2007
Content type: Press release
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws, Rule of law
ALMATY, 21 April 2007- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, today welcomed Kazakhstan's Parliament's recent decision to add to its agenda a new draft media law written by four journalists' organizations...
OSCE promotes media self-regulation in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 20 March 2007
Content type: Press release
What we do: Media freedom and development
ASTANA, 20 March 2007- Raising awareness in Kazakhstan on the benefits of media self-regulation was the aim of an OSCE-organized roundtable discussion in Astana today...
OSCE Centre promotes public discussion on freedom of expression
Publishing date: 5 March 2007
Content type: Press release
What we do: Media freedom and development
ASTANA, 5 March 2007- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, encouraged Kazakh authorities today to abandon plans to require licenses for all printing presses. Existing laws...
OSCE Centre promotes openness of courts in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 27 November 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Media freedom and development
ALMATY, 27 November 2006- Improving the justice system in Kazakhstan through increasing the openness of courts was the main topic at an OSCE-organized roundtable meeting held today in Almaty...
Kazakhstani journalists learn about land degradation and water management in OSCE Centre course
Publishing date: 24 November 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
ALMATY, 24 November 2006- Environmental security issues such as land degradation and water management was the focus of a week-long training course for Kazakhstani journalists that ended today...
OSCE promotes public access to government information in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 24 November 2006
Content type: Press release
What we do: Media freedom and development
ALMATY, 24 November 2006- Improving public access to government information at the regional level by increasing transparency and strengthening relations between the authorities and the media is the main topic of an OSCE seminar that opened today...
OSCE Centre holds seminar on access to government information in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 8 September 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Media freedom and development
BOROVOYE, Kazakhstan, 8 September 2006- An OSCE-organized seminar on improving public access to government information by strengthening relations between the authorities and the media began today in the northern city of Borovoye...