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OSCE removes threat posed by toxic rocket fuel component from south-west Ukrainian town, starts work at second site

Publishing date: 26 January 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Environmental activities
KALYNIVKA, Ukraine, 26 January 2010- The last train removing a highly toxic and volatile rocket fuel component from a storage site near the south-western Ukrainian town Kalynivka left today as part of an OSCE project that is set to remove the threat...

OSCE media freedom representative welcomes reforms of public television financing in Spain, Georgia

Publishing date: 19 January 2010
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
VIENNA, 19 January 2010- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, welcomed today recently implemented broadcast financing reforms in Spain and Georgia...

Turkey's Internet law needs to be reformed or abolished, says OSCE media freedom representative

Publishing date: 18 January 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media freedom on the internet, Media laws
VIENNA, 18 January 2010- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today asked the Turkish authorities to bring Turkey's internet law in line with OSCE commitments and other international standards on freedom of expression...

OSCE media freedom watchdog welcomes France's new law allowing journalists to protect confidential sources

Publishing date: 14 January 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development, Media laws, Rule of law, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 14 January 2010- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, welcomed today a new French law that strengthens the protection for journalists who keep the identity of their sources confidential even in courts of law...

OSCE media freedom representative welcomes Ireland's decriminalization of defamation, calls for crime of 'blasphemy' to be abolished

Publishing date: 12 January 2010
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, 12 January 2010- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, today welcomed Ireland's amended Defamation Act which went into effect at the start of the year, but criticized the introduction of a new "blasphemy" provision...

OSCE media freedom representative denounces 'new provocation' against jailed Azerbaijani journalist

Publishing date: 30 December 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 30 December 2009- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, condemned in strong terms today Azerbaijani officials' claims that jailed journalist Eynulla Fatullayev had been found in possession of drugs...

International community insists on independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina's broadcast regulator

Publishing date: 23 December 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Democratization, Media freedom and development, National minority issues
SARAJEVO/VIENNA, 23 December 2009- The Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina must refrain from undermining the independence of the Communications Regulatory Agency, representatives of the international community warned today...