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OSCE conference discusses media freedom in South Caucasus
Publishing date: 2 November 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media pluralism
TBILISI, 2 November 2006- Challenges and prospects for the privatized and privately owned media in the South Caucasus are the focus of the third annual OSCE Media Conference, hosted by the Government of Georgia, which opened in Tbilisi today...
OSCE media watchdog presents report on anomalies in accrediting journalists
Publishing date: 25 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 25 October 2006- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, presented a special report today on the administrative problems journalists have recently faced in several countries of the OSCE region. The paper...
OSCE Office in Baku welcomes Azerbaijani president's pardon of two newspaper editors
Publishing date: 23 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Media freedom and development, Rule of law
BAKU, 23 October 2006- The Head of the OSCE Office in Baku today welcomed the Azerbaijani president's pardon of two newspaper editors imprisoned this year for libel...
OSCE organizes media training programme in Brussels
Publishing date: 23 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development
BRUSSELS, 23 October 2006- The relationship between journalism and politics, media laws, investigative reporting, and the role of the media in a democratic society will be the focus of an OSCE training course in Brussels this week...
OSCE media freedom representative promotes media development in Central Asia
Publishing date: 19 October 2006
Content type: Press release
What we do: Digital switchover, Media freedom and development, Media laws
BISHKEK, 19 October 2006- Legal issues and other challenges related to the privatization of the media was the focus of a one-day conference today in Bishkek attended by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti...
OSCE Representative urges French Senate to reject criminalization of Armenian genocide denial
Publishing date: 17 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 17 October 2006- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media expressed his concern about the French National Assembly's adoption in a first reading of an amendment that aims to criminalize the denial that the 1915 killings of Armenians in...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes highest UK court's decision backing investigative journalism
Publishing date: 16 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 16 October 2006- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media praised the decision of the Law Lords, Britain's highest court, to grant journalists the right to publish unproven allegations in cases of public interest, provided that...