Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today released a comparative study “Defamation and Insult Laws in the OSCE Region” finding that criminal law remains an instrument to excessively limit media freedom. Commissioned by the representative and conducted by International Press Institute (IPI) Director of Press […]

Eine Gruppe zehn unabhängiger Journalisten und Medien-Anwälte aus der Türkei waren, unter anderem, Diskussionsteilnehmern der Veranstaltung „Turkey’s Media Under Siege des Internationalen Presse Institutes (IPI) in Wien am 22. Februar 2017. Die Teilnehmer der Diskussionsrunde, moderiert von der österreichischen Journalistin Petra Ramsauer, besprachen die derzeitige Lage der Medienfreiheit in der Türkei unter Präsident Recep Tayyip […]

Greek freelance journalist Anthi Pazianou found herself in the middle of an online abuse campaign in September after the leader of an extreme right-wing movement posted a photo of Pazianou with a refugee football team whose story she had recently covered along with other refugee-related issues on the Greek island of Lesbos. The post, which […]

The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) welcomed Austria’s assumption of the 2017 chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) last week, calling on the country to use the opportunity to strengthen cooperation to protect and promote media freedom among OSCE participating states. Austrian Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs […]