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Former OSCE Media Representative receives Germany's Order of Merit
Publishing date: 13 January 2004
What we do: Human rights, Democratization
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
What we do: Human rights, 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
What we do: Human rights, Democratization, 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...
Outgoing OSCE media watchdog reports to participating States about deteriorating press freedom
What we do: Human rights
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
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
What we do: Human rights, Safety of journalists
Location: Azerbaijan
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...
OSCE and RSF urge decriminalization of libel
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Human rights, Democratization
PARIS, 25 November 2003- Criminal libel and insult laws have become a major impediment to press freedom in many OSCE states, warned the Organization's Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, and Reporters sans frontieres. "Such...
OSCE media watchdog presents book on media freedom and the Internet
Publishing date: 23 October 2003
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom on the internet
VIENNA, 23 October 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, has today presented the book "Spreading the Word on the Internet" at a meeting of the Organization's decision-making body, the Permanent Council. "With the...
OSCE's media representative alarmed over beating of journalists in Azerbaijan
VIENNA, 17 October 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, expressed alarm over the beating of journalists by police during post-election protests in Baku yesterday. "Once again I feel compelled to express my alarm...
OSCE media watchdog concerned over murder of Russian journalist
VIENNA, 13 October 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, was shocked by the 9 October murder of Russian newspaper editor Alexei Sidorov, who was fatally stabbed by two men who ambushed him in the car park...