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1161st Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

1161st Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

1161st Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

1161st Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Report by the Director of the Office For Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Ms. Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, on the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (Russian Federation, Annex 1; Canada, Annex 2; Tajikistan, Annex 3). Presentation by the OSCE Secretary General of the 2018 Unified Budget Proposal. Report by the Director of the Conflict Prevention Centre, Ambassador Marcel Pesko. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Concerns about reported police abuse of gay and transgender people in Azerbaijan. Freedom of peaceful assembly in the Russian Federation. Farewell to the Permanent Representative of Portugal to the OSCE, Ambassador M. da Graça Mira Gomes. Democracy and rule of law in Spain (Spain, Annex 4).

Agenda, timetable and other organizational modalities of the 2017 Human Dimension Seminar.

Topic and dates of the Human Dimension Seminar in Warsaw.

On 6 March 2017 the Prime Minister’s Office of Georgia made an official announcement on the initiative to establish the Office of Media Ombudsman, inviting international media observers and international media experts for cooperation. This text, commissioned by the Office of the RFOM, and prepared by Dainius Radzevicius, Chairman of the Lithuanian Journalists Union and independent media law expert, was requested by the government of Georgia. The text is based on a visit by Mr. Radzevicius to the country on 1-2 May 2017 and covers, not only the analysis of the legal framework of Georgia, but actual practices in the area of press regulation and self-regulation.

The Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media in co-operation with the Media Governance and Industries Research Lab at the Department of Communication of the University of Vienna organized a joint conference on the challenges to media freedom caused by the impunity for murders of journalists. In the meeting of approximately 100 participants, experts from across the OSCE region discussed the practical, methodological and ethical aspects of monitoring the deaths of journalists and collecting information on such cases. Ways to improve and amend current practices in the OSCE region, and in particular in Ukraine, to enhance journalists’ safety were also discussed during the panel discussion and the subsequent round table, Vienna, 11 December 2017.