State restrictions on use of the Internet have spread to more than 20 countries that use catch-all and contradictory rules to help keep people off line and stifle feared political opposition, a new ...

The OSCE should bolster the role of its secretary general and focus on crisis prevention, recommends a new report on OSCE involvement in Ukraine. The results, however, were not fully shared by the ...

The OSCE study also highlighted “exceptionally long prison sentences” handed down to convicted journalists, many of whom also face multiple trials. According to the study, one journalist, Bayram Namaz ...

Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, said Moscow wanted to know what OSCE observers on the ground in the South Ossetian conflict zone were reporting just before the war erupted in August.

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Desir has expressed his desire to visit Crimea to study the work of the media, the press service of the Ukrainian president's office in Crimea ...

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is a 7 May 2007 media release of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), an IFJ regional group: EFJ Says New Study Shows EU Needs Better Laws to Protect Investigative ...

Trafficking in human beings has dramatically changed since it was first recognized as a crime 20 years ago. Today technology is a centerpiece of the human trafficking business model and 75% of sex ...

VIENNA, July 29 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - State restrictions on use of the Internet have spread to more than 20 countries that use catch-all and contradictory rules to ...