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FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, MEDIA FREEDOMS AND (SELF)
CENSORSHIP IN THE OSCE AREA – INTERNATIONAL
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This project aims to stimulate the Serbian government to prioritize
freedom of expression issues during its OSCE Chairmanship, to
promote media legislation which strengthens freedom of expression
and media freedoms as well as to raise awareness about OSCE human
dimension commitments. The Helsinki Committee will organize a two
day international conference in Belgrade, which will address the
problems that media in OSCE region face and that are related to
broader rule of law developments. The conference will also refer to
EU standards in the legislation and development of media freedoms,
which is particularly important for the Western Balkans.
International CSOs, media organizations, members of the Civic
Solidarity Platform and independent institutions will be invited to
participate in the conference, which will result in the drafting of
recommendations to OSCE Chairperson, OSCE institutions and member
states.
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IZABELA KISIC, SPEECH AT THE INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE “FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, MEDIA
FREEDOMS AND (SELF) CENSORSHIP IN OSCE AREA”
Belgrade, 20-21 July 2015
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Your excellences,
Ladies and gentlemen,
Dear colleagues,
I would like to welcome you on behalf of the Helsinki Committee
for Human
Rights in Serbia and to thank you for recognizing the |
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importance of this conference and accepting our invitation
to participate in
it. The conference is organized in the
framework of the civil
society engagement in the
implementation of the OSCE Human
Dimension
Commitments (through Civic Solidarity Platform), one
of the leadng network of civil society organizations from OSCE
countries. This conference would not be possible without
the
support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of...
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PLURALISM IN A DEFECTIVE MEDIA MARKET
Jovanka Matić
Belgrade, 20-21 July 2015
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New media laws, adopted in 2014, brought significant changes
with regard to
media pluralism. They introduced the term “media
pluralism” in the legislation, which is treated as one of the
basic principles of media |
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regulation. A number of
protection
mechanisms of media pluralism was set up, such as
transparency of ownership
and anti-monopoly rules, program standards
for
commercial media, regulation of the content of
PSB
programming,
financial support to minority media, project financing for content
in public interest, etc. Implementation
of
laws is delayed. However,
much more important
problems of
the system of protection of media
pluralism
are its built-in
deficiencies. The system does...
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