Document details

Ten Years for Media Freedom: An OSCE Anniversary

Vienna: Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) (2008), 176 pp.

Contains illustrations, bibliogr.

ISBN 978-92-9234-625-6

Foreword / Miklós Haraszti, 7
ANNIVERSARY ESSAYS
A brief look back and the uneasy years to come / Freimut Duve, 14
The good old media freedom threats / Kostek Gebert, 21
Free press: watchdog not lapdog / Thomas Hammarberg, 27
Building bridges with our pens / Plantu, 35
Defending free expression: a writers’ association perspective / Karin Clark, 41
Freedom and the new information and communication technology / Reino Paasilinna, 47
Border, travel and communications surveillance schemes and implications for civil liberties / Gus Hosein, 51
Freedom of the media in times of crisis: Turkey and the South Caucasus / Firdevs Robinson, 61
Media freedom under threat in the Commonwealth of Independent States / Oleg Panfilov, 71
Living in a state of disagreement with the Russian authorities / Alexei Simonov, 77
Selected Cartoons / Plantu and Chappatte, 85
RFOM CONTRIBUTIONS
Statement at the International Federation of Journalists World Congress / Miklós Haraszti, 94
The advertisement addiction; Answers to the crisis of public-service broadcasting / Miklós Haraszti, 105
Regular Report to the OSCE Permanent Council on the Danish cartoons controversy / Miklós Haraszti, 117
The cartoons saga and beyond / Arnaud Amouroux, 123
Legal review as instrument of change: the work of the RFOM in the sphere of legislative reform / Slava Shayman, 133
The future of media freedom on the Internet / Christian Möller, 139
CONGRATULATORY STATEMENTS
Statement by the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, 150
Statement by Secretary of State Pertti Torstila, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, on behalf of the Finnish Chairmanship of the OSCE, 153
Statement by the Special Representative of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, 157
Statement by the Delegation of the United States of America to the OSCE, 161
Statement by the Delegation of Canada to the OSCE, 163
Press statement by the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, 167
Press statement by the International Press Institute (IPI), 169