Skip navigation

0Meta Navigation

× Close search

Navigation

Home Newsroom Press releases
Newsroom

News and press releases

Subscribe to News Updates

News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.

OSCE Media Representative discusses hard-hitting report on Kosovo media face-to-face with journalists

Publishing date: 6 May 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media pluralism, Media self-regulation
VIENNA, 6 May 2004- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, presented his recent critical report on the media behaviour during the mid-March riots in Kosovo to TV, radio and print journalists at press conferences he gave in...

OSCE Magazine highlights Kosovo, BiH education reform and Russian role in OSCE

Publishing date: 6 May 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Economic activities, Border management, Environmental activities, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, Countering terrorism, Media freedom and development, National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector, Roma and Sinti
VIENNA, 6 May 2004- The impact of recent events in Kosovo on the OSCE's work, the relationship between Russia and the Organization, and a special report on education reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina are among the highlights of the Magazine's May issue...

OSCE 'Berlin Declaration' sets out concrete measures to fight anti-Semitism

Publishing date: 29 April 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
BERLIN, 29 April 2004- The OSCE's second Conference on anti-Semitism ended today with a ringing condemnation of all acts motivated by anti-Semitism or other forms of religious or racial hatred, and States agreed to take specific, practical counter...

OSCE/ODIHR supports Polish publication on Holocaust education

Publishing date: 27 April 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
WARSAW/BERLIN, 27 April 2004- The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and the Judaica Foundation in Kracow, Poland, have published a book focusing on the need to teach about the Holocaust. The book contains 13 essays by Polish...

OSCE free media representative finds Kosovo press coverage of March violence "reckless and sensationalist"

Publishing date: 22 April 2004
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, 22 April 2004- The recent violence in Kosovo might have been avoided without the "reckless and sensationalist reporting" by local media, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, said today...

OSCE Mission welcomes approval of Croatia's bid for EU membership

Publishing date: 21 April 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
ZAGREB, 21 April 2004- The OSCE Mission to Croatia today welcomed the European Commission's positive opinion on Croatia's application for membership of the European Union. "We are pleased that Croatia...

European experts issue report on Croatian draft law on media and criminal defamation

Publishing date: 21 April 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Media freedom and development
ZAGREB, 21 April 2004- An expert report on the draft Croatian Law on Media and on defamation provision of the Criminal Code has been made public today by the European Commission, the Council of Europe and the OSCE Mission to Croatia. The report was...