An expert mission from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) will travel to Estonia next month to carry out another study of the e-voting system. A formal request to check ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Turkey leads world in jailing journalists, OSCE study finds Study finds Turkey surpasses Iran, China with 57 jailed journalists; reporters can be imprisoned for 3 years before being put on trial.

(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 ...

The Moscow Mechanism is a rare diplomatic action reserved for serious human rights concerns WASHINGTON, November 2. /TASS/. The United States has joined a coalition of 16 countries invoking an OSCE ...

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 ...