News and press releases

VIENNA, 17 October 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said that members of the Kyrgyz Parliament should reconsider legal provisions criminalizing LGBT-related information...

YEREVAN, 16 October 2014 – An OSCE-supported report detailing Armenia’s switchover from analogue to digital broadcasting was presented today in Yerevan. The report notes that while the technical preparations are going to schedule, not enough effort has been invested in raising public awareness and that the criteria for distributing decoders to vulnerable families is not clear...

VIENNA/SKOPJE, 16 October 2014 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today submitted a two-year strategy including action points to the newly-established Council of Media Ethics (CMEM)...

VIENNA, 14 October 2014 – At a roundtable discussion yesterday organized by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, representatives for media outlets in Montenegro agreed to review the professional code of ethics as a first step to improve media self-regulation in the country...

The OSCE Office in Yerevan, in co-operation with non-governmental organization the Helsinki Committee of Armenia, held a workshop on 11 to 12 October 2014 in Tsakhkadzor, in Armenia’s Kotayq region, on the principles of ethical reporting about the penal system...

VIENNA, 10 October 2014 – Following yet another attack against a journalist in Bosnia and Herzegovina the OSCE media freedom representative, Dunja Mijatović, today called on the authorities to swiftly and thoroughly investigate all attacks against members of the media...

VIENNA, 10 October 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said that the criminal trial against journalist Anuška Delić could present a threat to media freedom and also stifle investigative journalism in Slovenia...