Media developments

Media developments 05/11/2013

Transparency: EU countries need to protect whistleblowers

Berlin – Most European Union countries fail to legally protect whistleblowers enough from retaliation in the workplace, shutting out an important actor in the fight against…

Media developments, Member news, SEENPM Publications 05/11/2013

A political battlefield in South East Europe – public service media

The South East European Media Observatory released its first summary of flash reports on countries including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Macedonia, and Serbia….

Media developments 02/11/2013

IFEX launched 2013 End Impunity Campaign

Toronto – IFEX launched its third annual International Day to End Impunity campaign, in which voices are united to raise awareness about how a culture of…

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Media developments 24/10/2013

Bosnia and Herzegovina: draft law threaten independence of regulator

Vienna – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said the new draft electronic communications law in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a…

Media developments 22/10/2013

LIBE vote on Data Protection Regulation

Strasbourg – European Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (LIBE) accepted a major overhaul of current EU data protection rules, putting people in control…

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Media developments 18/10/2013

Concerns about media freedom in Republika Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina

Vienna – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today expressed concern about a damage award handed down against a journalist for defaming the…

Media developments, Moldova 16/10/2013

Moldovan Parliament repealed anti-LGBT ‘propaganda’ legislation

Chisinau – Moldovan Parliament voted Friday to repeal its recently enacted law prohibiting the “propagation of any other relations than those related to marriage or family”…

Media developments 10/10/2013

Strasbourg decision: news site liable for comments

Strasbourg – In the Delfi AS v. Estonia case, the European Court of Human Rights held that there had been no violation of Article 10…

Media developments 03/10/2013

Freedom on the Net 2013: broadened technical or legal surveillance powers

Washington – Broad surveillance, new laws controlling web content, and growing arrests of social-media users drove a worldwide decline in internet freedom in the past year,…

Media developments 20/09/2013

Internet must remain a forum for free speech, states OSCE conference in Tirana

Tirana – Media freedom in the South East European region is deteriorating, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today told journalists and…

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