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OSCE condemns attack against journalist reporting on migrants in Macedonia

29/07/2015

OSCE Representative for Freedom of the Media condemns the attack on journalist Cornelia Krebs, who was reporting on border migration issues in Macedonia

European journalists and cartoonists stand up for media freedom in Berlin

10/07/2015

Together, they will create an educational online platform to support young media makers and a comic book about press freedom in their countries

OSCE Representative welcomes new draft for journalists’ ethics code in Montenegro, addresses issues of journalists’ safety and impunity

07/07/2015

Speaking at the end of her two-day visit to Montenegro, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović welcomed the new draft Code of Ethics for Montenegrin journalists

Nils Muižnieks : too many threats to journalists in Europe

02/07/2015

The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe sent a letter to the president of Ossigeno per l'Informazione on the occasion of today's conference “Protect who reports inconvenient truths”, taking place in Rome

The EFJ welcomes the Croatian Center for the Protection of Freedom of Expression

29/06/2015

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) welcomes the launch of the Croatian Center for the Protection of Freedom of Expression. The Croatian Journalists’ Association (HND), in cooperation with the Union of Croatian Journalists (SNH), both members of the EFJ, will present this project in Zagreb, on 2 July. The Center will provide legal protection to journalists, in a context of increasingly frequent threats and intimidation

European Centre for Press and Media Freedom founded in Leipzig

25/06/2015

Representatives of 20 journalists associations, publishing houses, academic institutions, trade unions and media rights experts from many European countries have founded the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) in Leipzig today. Based in Leipzig a team of six starts working after the Centre has now been established as an independent non-profit European Co-operative Society (SCE)

Armenia: safety of journalists must be ensured at all times

23/06/2015

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today said journalists’ safety must be ensured at all times, following recent incidents and coercive actions by police against journalists covering public protest in Yerevan, Armenia

Progress on human rights protection remains slow in Bulgaria

23/06/2015

“Bulgaria has made some progress in strengthening human rights protection, but this remains slow and fragile, in particular as regard the rights of persons placed in institutions, the human rights of migrants and media freedom,” said today Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, while releasing a report on his visit to Bulgaria carried out from 9 to 11 February 2015

Safety and solidarity for journalists in Ukraine

18/06/2015

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have launched on the 16th of June a report on the safety of journalists in Ukraine in 2014 during a conflict reporting conference organized by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna

Efforts needed to safeguard journalists and to tackle propaganda, OSCE conference participants say

16/06/2015

Journalists’ safety is a cornerstone of free media, not least in times of conflict, and must be ensured and strengthened, participants said today at a two-day conference on journalists’ safety and conflict reporting in Vienna. The attendees also stressed the importance of tackling the issue of propaganda, pointing to free and independent journalism as one tool