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OSCE media watchdog, Finnish OSCE Chairmanship host forum on challenges to media freedom
Publishing date: 29 February 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws
VIENNA, 29 February 2008- OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklós Haraszti, and Finnish Secretary of State Pertti Torstila, called on participating States to comply with their OSCE media commitments at a roundtable discussion today...
OSCE Chairman's envoy urges participating States to respect fundamental freedoms
Publishing date: 30 March 2007
Content type: Press release
VIENNA, 30 March 2007- The situation with fundamental freedoms of association, assembly and expression in a number of OSCE participating States are still a matter of concern, said participants at an OSCE meeting that concluded in Vienna today...
OSCE's Belgian Chairmanship says helped start new chapter for Organization
Publishing date: 5 December 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Summits / Ministerial Councils
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Economic activities, Border management, Environmental activities, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Education, Elections, Countering terrorism, Gender equality, Media freedom and development, National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector, Roma and Sinti, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
BRUSSELS, 5 December 2006- OSCE Chairman Karel De Gucht said today Belgium had helped redress the balance between the three aspects of security and championed reforms that could end an introspective episode and start a new chapter for the Organization...
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 Chairman shocked by murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya
Publishing date: 7 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, 7 October 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, expressed profound shock today about the news of the murder of prominent Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. "I condemn the murder...
OSCE does not recognize Transdniestrian independence referendum, Chairman-in-Office says, recalling July statement
Publishing date: 18 September 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
BRUSSELS, 18 September 2006- The OSCE does not recognize the referendum on independence held 17 September in Transdniestrian region of Moldova, the Organization's Chairman-in-Office...
Chairman De Gucht stresses OSCE's role in promoting press freedom and tolerance
Publishing date: 29 May 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Media freedom and development
BRUSSELS, 29 May 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office Karel De Gucht, today opened a colloquium on the role of the internet and satellite television in relations between the peoples of the OSCE, Mediterranean and Middle East countries...