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Former OSCE Media Representative receives Germany's Order of Merit

Publishing date: 13 January 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 13 January 2004- The former OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, today received the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from President Johannes Rau. The award honoured Duve's...

Journalism is more than a market product, says OSCE media watchdog in new study on media concentration in Europe

Publishing date: 18 December 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 18 December 2003- Media concentration and foreign media ownership might turn out to be a structural obstacle for free and pluralistic media, according to the OSCE's Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve...

OSCE media freedom representative and Council of Europe concerned over death of journalist in Ukraine

Publishing date: 18 December 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA/STRASBOURG, 18 December 2003- Walter Schwimmer, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, and Freimut Duve, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, voiced their concern today over the death of another journalist in Ukraine...

OSCE Mission concerned over shooting of media owner in Croatia

Publishing date: 17 December 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
ZAGREB, 17 December 2003- The OSCE Mission to Croatia has expressed its concerns today over Monday night's shooting of one of the co-owners of Croatia's first commercial TV station, NOVA TV. The shots fired at Ivan Caleta resulted in serious leg...

Outgoing OSCE media watchdog reports to participating States about deteriorating press freedom

Publishing date: 11 December 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 11 December 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, today strongly criticised a deterioration in media freedom in many participating States in his final statement to the Permanent Council before leaving office...

Outgoing OSCE Media Representative to criticize participating States over press freedom in final report

Publishing date: 9 December 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 9 December 2003- After six years in office, Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, will on Thursday, 11 December, give his last official report to the Organization's 55-nation Permanent Council...

OSCE media freedom representative asks for release of Azeri journalist from prison

Publishing date: 4 December 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 4 December 2003- A leading European media watchdog, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, has requested Azeri authorities to release a journalist from prison. In a letter he sent to Foreign Minister Vilayat Guliyev...