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OSCE supports broader dialogue on digital broadcasting in Tajikistan

Publishing date: 27 September 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Media freedom and development
DUSHANBE, 27 September 2012 – Some 80 members of the Public Council under the President as well as invited experts and stakeholders discussed the switchover to digital terrestrial TV broadcast in Tajikistan at an OSCE-supported Social Partnership Club meeting today...

OSCE media freedom representative deplores Italian criminal defamation ruling, urges law reform

Publishing date: 27 September 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Media freedom and development, Media laws
VIENNA, 27 September 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today called on the Italian authorities to reform libel laws following an Italian high court ruling upholding the criminal conviction and 14-month prison sentence imposed on Allessandro Sallusti, former editor of the newspaper Libero...

Greater independence in public broadcasting and broadcast regulation needed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, says OSCE media freedom representative

Publishing date: 26 September 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media self-regulation
VIENNA, 26 September 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Fletcher Burton and the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Bosnia and Herzegovina/EU Special Representative, Ambassador Peter Sørensen, today called for legal reforms to ensure the independence of the public service broadcasters and broadcast regulator in Bosnia and Herzegovina...

Freedom of information enhances government transparency, say participants at OSCE human rights conference

Publishing date: 25 September 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Democratization, Media freedom and development
Participants at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw highlighted measures to promote free access to information held by governments, as well as the importance of providing legal protection to individuals who expose wrongdoing within organizations – so-called whistleblowers...

Greater media independence needed in South East Europe, say OSCE conference participants

Publishing date: 21 September 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media pluralism
BELGRADE, 21 September 2012 – Safeguarding and promoting media freedom was the focus of the Second OSCE South East Europe Media Conference that finished in Belgrade today...

OSCE Centre trains environmental journalists in Kazakhstan

Publishing date: 21 September 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities, Media freedom and development
KARAGANDA, Kazakhstan, 21 September 2012 – The fourth and final of a series of OSCE-supported training courses for journalists on environmental matters started today in Karaganda, central Kazakhstan...

OSCE media freedom representative visits Serbia, urges government to speed up media reforms

Publishing date: 20 September 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media self-regulation, Safety of journalists
BELGRADE, 20 September 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today urged the Serbian government to accelerate reforms to safeguard media freedom...