News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE representative concerned over threat to media pluralism in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 30 November 2012
VIENNA, 29 November 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed concern today that legal proceedings initiated against several media outlets in Kazakhstan might severely undermine media pluralism in the country...
OSCE Representative highlights journalists’ safety, Internet governance in report to Permanent Council
Publishing date: 29 November 2012
Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, told participating States there was still much to be done to end violence against journalists in her last official report of the year to the OSCE Permanent Council on 29 November 2012...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes Italian Senate’s rejection of libel legislation, calls for full decriminalization of defamation
Publishing date: 28 November 2012
VIENNA, 28 November 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, welcomed today the rejection by the Senate in Rome of the proposal to retain imprisonment for defamation in the Italian Criminal Code...
OSCE Centre holds online media course in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 23 November 2012
ASHGABAT, 23 November 2012 – An OSCE-organized training course on launching a website and online newsroom management concluded in Ashgabat today...
Self-regulation, code of ethics key to fighting pressure on print media, conclude OSCE conference participants
Publishing date: 22 November 2012
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 22 November 2012- Self-regulatory bodies for print media have a key role to play in improving the quality of reporting, protecting media from undue pressure, and increasing their competitiveness in saturated media markets, the participants of an OSCE conference on the state of print media in South Eastern Europe concluded today...
Italy should not jail journalists for libel says OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 16 November 2012
VIENNA, 16 November 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed concern today over pending legislation that would make imprisonment a penalty for criminal libel in Italy...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes Skopje authorities’ decriminalization of libel
Publishing date: 14 November 2012
VIENNA, 14 November 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today commended the government and Parliament in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia for decriminalizing defamation...