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Country monitoring on media freedom, independence and diversity

Document	Date
Armenia
Report by Thomas Hammarberg Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe following his visit to Armenia. Chapter II - Fundamental freedoms (Press release) CommDH(2011)12 / 09 May 2011 CommDH(2011)12 / 09 May 2011 (in Armenian)	21 January 2011
Press release: Greater efforts must be made to heal the wounds of March 2008 and strengthen the protection of human rights, following the visit to Armenia from 18 to 21 January 2011
Report by the Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr Thomas Hammarberg, on his visit to Armenia. Paragraphs 131-139. CommDH(2008)4 / 30 April 2008	7-11 October 2007
Azerbaijan
Press release: Commissioner and OSCE media freedom representative concerned at further restrictions to free expression in Azerbaijan	6 June 2013
Press release: Azerbaijan: greater freedom of expression and assembly urgently needed, following the visit to Azerbaijan from 22 to 24 May 2013	27 May 2013
Observations on the human rights situation in Azerbaijan. Freedom of expression, freedom of association, freedom of peaceful assembly (Press release) CommDH(2011)33 / 29 September 2011	29 September 2011
Information provided by the Azerbaijani authorities concerning the observations of the Commissioner for Human Rights. Freedom of expression, freedom of association, freedom of peaceful assembly CommDH(2011)34 / 29 September 2011	29 September 2011
Report by Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, following his visit to Azerbaijan. Issues reviewed: Freedom of expression; freedom of association; conduct of law enforcement officials; administration of justice; observations on the visit to the Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan (Press release) CommDH(2010)21 / 29 June 2010	1-5 March 2010
Report by the Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr Thomas Hammarberg on his visit to Azerbaijan. Paragraphs 63-73. (Press release) CommDH(2008)2 / 20 February 2008	3-7 September 2007
Hungary
Letter addressed to Mr János Martonyi, Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs, from Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights (Press release) CommDH(2012)4 / 12 January 2012	16 December 2011
Reply of Mr János Martonyi, Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the letter of Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights CommDH(2012)5 / 12 January 2012	10 January 2012
Opinion of the Commissioner for Human Rights on Hungary's media legislation in light of Council of Europe standards on freedom of the media (Press release) CommDH(2011)10 / 25 February 2011	25 February 2011
Press release: Commissioner Hammarberg initiates dialogue and calls on the authorities to ensure freedom of expression and media pluralism	1 February 2011
Lithuania
Letter from the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights to Ms Irena Degutienė, Speaker of the Seimas CommDH(2010)6 / 17 February 2010	9 December 2009
Reply by Ms Irena Degutienė, Speaker of the Seimas, Lithuania, to the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights CommDH(2010)7 / 17 February 2010	10 February 2010
Letter from the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights to Mr Andrius Kubilius, Prime Minister of Lithuania CommDH(2010)4 / 17 February 2010	9 December 2009
Reply by Mr Andrius Kubilius, Prime Minister of Lithuania, to the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights CommDH(2010)5 / 17 February 2010	8 February 2010
Republic of Moldova
Report by Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe following his visit to Moldova CommDH(2009)27 / 17 July 2009	25-28 April 2009
Montenegro
Report by the Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, on his visit to Montenegro (Press release) CommDH(2008)25 / 08 October 2008	2-6 June 2008
Russian Federation
Report by Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, following his visit to the Russian Federation (Chechen Republic and the Republic of Ingushetia) CommDH(2009)36 / 24 November 2009	2-11 September 2009
Serbia
Report by Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, following his visit to Serbia. Chapter III - Freedom of the media, access to public information and personal data protection (Press release) CommDH(2011)29 / 22 September 2011	12-15 June 2011
Report by the Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, on his visit to Serbia (Press release) CommDH(2009)8 / 11 March 2009	13-17 October 2008
"the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"
Report by the Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr Thomas Hammarberg, on his visit to “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” (Press release) CommDH(2008)21 / 11 September 2008	25-29 February 2008
Turkey
Report by Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, following his visit to Turkey from 27 to 29 April 2011 (Freedom of expression and media freedom in Turkey) (Press release) CommDH(2011)25 / 12 July 2011 CommDH(2011)25 (in Turkish) / 12 July 2011	12 July 2011
Report by Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, following his visit to Turkey CommDH(2009)30 / 01 October 2009 CommDH(2009)30 / 01 October 2009 (in Turkish)	28 June-3 July 2009

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Nils Muižnieks
is the Commissioner for Human Rights, an independent, non-judicial institution of the Council of Europe, mandated to promote awareness of, and respect for, human rights in the 47 member States

Agenda

 

• 20/06/2013 Speak-up! Conference on freedom of expression and media (Brussels)
• 24-28/06/2013 PACE session

 

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