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OSCE conference discusses media freedom in South Caucasus

Publishing date: 2 November 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media pluralism
TBILISI, 2 November 2006- Challenges and prospects for the privatized and privately owned media in the South Caucasus are the focus of the third annual OSCE Media Conference, hosted by the Government of Georgia, which opened in Tbilisi today...

OSCE media watchdog presents report on anomalies in accrediting journalists

Publishing date: 25 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 25 October 2006- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, presented a special report today on the administrative problems journalists have recently faced in several countries of the OSCE region. The paper...

OSCE media freedom representative promotes media development in Central Asia

Publishing date: 19 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Digital switchover, Media freedom and development, Media laws
BISHKEK, 19 October 2006- Legal issues and other challenges related to the privatization of the media was the focus of a one-day conference today in Bishkek attended by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti...

OSCE Representative urges French Senate to reject criminalization of Armenian genocide denial

Publishing date: 17 October 2006
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, 17 October 2006- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media expressed his concern about the French National Assembly's adoption in a first reading of an amendment that aims to criminalize the denial that the 1915 killings of Armenians in...

OSCE media freedom representative welcomes highest UK court's decision backing investigative journalism

Publishing date: 16 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 16 October 2006- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media praised the decision of the Law Lords, Britain's highest court, to grant journalists the right to publish unproven allegations in cases of public interest, provided that...

OSCE media freedom representative calls on Azerbaijan's president to decriminalize defamation

Publishing date: 9 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Media freedom and development
BAKU, 9 October 2006- The OSCE Media Freedom Representative, Miklos Haraszti, today urged Azerbaijan's president and foreign minister to decriminalize defamation...

Irish draft bill on defamation major improvement, but job unfinished, says OSCE media freedom representative

Publishing date: 29 September 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 29 September 2006- A legal review presented today to the Irish government by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media says draft bills on defamation and privacy contain major improvements, but need to completely decriminalize defamation...