25 November 2015 / By Jonathan Luxmoore, The Pilot Media monitors at the 57-country Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe condemned the Vatican’s trial of two journalists and urged the Holy See to honor its international press freedom commitments. “Our main concern is for the protection of confidential sources — this is a pillar…
23 November 2015 / By Annette Chrysostomou, Cyprus Mail Violations of press freedom have increased drastically worldwide from last year, especially in Europe. Though Cyprus has gained one place on the international scale – up to 24 – the country is part of this trend, with a two per cent decline in press freedom, according to…
20 November 2015 / By Radio Free Europe – Radio Liberty The OSCE’s representative on freedom of the media, Dunja Mijatovic, has deplored the decision of Russian authorities to label the nongovernmental organization Glasnost Defense Foundation (GDF) as a “foreign agent.” In a November 20 statement, Mijatovic said GDF had been “working tirelessly to protect and…
19 Noviembre 2015 / By Nicolás Del Valle O. El Mostrador Si la preocupación respecto del pluralismo informativo fuese cierta, deberíamos ver a una UDI que luche por desconcentrar el control y la propiedad de los medios en Chile, deberíamos ver un senador Larraín que luche por paneles políticos donde se incorporen a panelistas que…
17 de noviembre 2016 / By Georgia Today On 16th November the European Union and Georgia held the second meeting of the Association Council, the highest formal body established under the EU-Georgia Association Agreement in order to supervise the implementation of the Agreement. As the joint press release stated following the event, the Council began by…
17 november 2015 / By Juan García. Huffington Post Over a quarter of a century since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the scars of Central & Eastern Europe’s post-communist legacy are still clear to see. Lacking the institutional infrastructure and regulatory oversight, the collapse of communism in the USSR created a void across the…
16 de noviembre 2015 / By Agenda.de The United States (US) has welcomed the recent developments regarding the Tbilisi-based Rustavi 2 private broadcasting company and said they would allow the appeals processes to move forward and preserve media pluralism in Georgia. The US also praised Georgia for its recent reforms which contributed to a stronger…
12 November 2015 / By New Zimbabwe OPPOSITION MDC-T legislator, Nelson Chamisa, has described as “deplorable and unpleasant” the press crackdown by government which has seen the arrest of journalists from both the private and public media. In a statement this week, Chamisa, also an advocate in Harare, said the State was “effectively criminalising journalism…
12 November 2015 / By Tamar Svanidze. Georgia Today Georgia has been elected a member of the Human Rights Council for 2016-2018. At the same time, 71 Member States of the United Nations have reviewed and given recommendations on the human rights conditions in Georgia. At the session of the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic…
6 November 2015 / By UN News In a report to the General Assembly, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus called on the country to start reforming its laws and practices that have for two decades stifled its citizens’ right to freedom of expression. “Critical opinion and fact-finding…
28 October 2015 / By Dan Alexe. All main political groups of the European Parliament voiced concern on Thursday 29 October over an ownership dispute involving Georgia’s biggest independent TV company, Rustavi 2, and said it could harm media freedom. A court in Tbilisi earlier this month ordered a seizure of shares in the company that owns…
2 November 2015 / By Georgia Today Georgia’s ambassador to the United States, Archil Gegeshidze, sent a letter to The Washington Post editorial board titled, “Democracy and media pluralism thrive in Georgia.” The letter is a response to the October 27th article by the Washington Post, “A seizure of a popular TV station would be…
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