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Freimut Duve: fighting terrorism should not be used as an excuse to violate basic human rights
Publishing date: 27 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws
VIENNA, 27 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The world public is still mourning the victims of the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. Many governments are already actively developing new approaches to their securit...
OSCE human rights office calls for independent investigation of unsolved disappearances and murders in Belarus and Ukraine
Publishing date: 24 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
WARSAW, 21 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE's human rights institution, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), today called for an independent investigation of the murder of the Ukrainian journalist Georgyi Gongadze...
OSCE Media Representative to address press in Skopje
Publishing date: 12 September 2001
Content type: Press release
What we do: Media freedom and development
SKOPJE, 12 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, will address the press in Skopje tomorrow, 13 September. The OSCE Spillover Monitoring Mission to Skopje...
OSCE Media Representative to hold discussions with journalists in Skopje
Publishing date: 10 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 10 September 2001 (OSCE)-- For 13 September 2001, Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, has invited journalists and editors for a one day conference on the tasks, the chances and the challenges of free journalism...
Freimut Duve: independent newspaper confiscated in Belarus
Publishing date: 21 August 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 21 August 2001 (OSCE)-- On 17 August, 400,000 copies of a special issue of the independent Belarus newspaper Nasha Svaboda were confiscated at the private publishing house Magic in Minsk by police from the Committee for Financial...
OSCE Mission to monitor investigation into 1999 bombing of Serb state media station
Publishing date: 10 August 2001
Content type: Press release
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
BELGRADE, 10 August 2001 (OSCE)-- Representatives of the OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia met with relatives of two victims of the 1999 Radio Televizija Srbije (RTS) bombing in Aberdareva Street...
Freimut Duve concerned over attack on journalists in Genoa
Publishing date: 27 July 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 27 July 2001 (OSCE)-- On 27 July, Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, intervened with the Italian Foreign Minister Renato Ruggiero regarding actions by the Italian police against journalists...