Oliver Vujovic is a co-founder of the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) and since 2000 has been SEEMO Secretary General. Vujovic worked as a journalist and Balkan correspondent for the Austrian daily Die Presse between 1991 and 2000, and as a freelancer for different media in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the UK. He also worked in the marketing department of the German company Henkel. He graduated in economics and is currently working on a PhD at the University of Vienna. Vujovic started his professional work as a journalist for Radio Indeks 202 (Radio Belgrade) in Belgrade (1988) and worked from the founding for Radio B92 in Belgrade (1989). In 2000 and 2001, he served as Director of the Vienna Balkan publication Südosteuropäischer Dialog, and Director and Advisor of the Kulturzentrum in Vienna.

Annual statistic / data of criminal court cases against journalists. Additional SEEMO is documenting criminal court cases against media support workers. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008. Serbia did not recognise the move and considers Kosovo as a United Nations – governed entity that forms an integral part of Serbia. As of 27 February 2017, 115 countries, including the United States and most European Union member countries, in addition to most neighbouring states, recognised the new state. 111 out of 193 UN member states recognised Kosovo. SEEMO organised in June 2008 the conference Media, Marketing and Business in Belgrade (Serbia). In December 2008 SEEMO organised the conference Public Broadcasting in South East Europe in Ljubljana (Slovenia), where general managers of the public services and the chairpersons of the boards of public services took part. In May 2010, SEEMO organised the first South, East and Central Europe Investigative Journalism Days in Montenegro. The second South, East and Central Europe Investigative Journalism Days were in Serbia in May 2011 with topic "Corruption and Media". The third South, East and Central Europe Investigative Journalism Days took place in Chisinau, Moldova, in 2012. The SEEMO Human Rights Award is presented every year on 10 December, International Human Rights Day. Winners include:The Call is open to nationals of CEI Member States: Albania, Belarus* , Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine.

The HD SDI input can also be looped out to allow connection to other downstream devices such as Accsoon’s own CineView SE and Quad SDI wireless transmitters. The jury will take into account the relevance of the matters covered by the reports, which should have a focus on the target countries as well as the quality of reporting in terms of documentation, data, writing and production. The personal risks taken while performing the duties as well as the impact on society of the messages conveyed will also be evaluated.

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Azra Husarić Omerović, a graduate in Journalism at the University of Tuzla, and currently a journalist at BIRN BiH, works as a court reporter and is the frontrunner for the “Young Professional Journalists” category. Her journalistic work primarily focuses on human rights protection, the rights of children with developmental difficulties, but also on hate speech, discrimination, and electoral irregularities. The jury praised her investigative work producing a story about a group of self-styled healers that led to tragic death, a valuable example of commitment to uncover lesser known stories in a modern and multimedia format. Today, this initiative unites several dozen human rights organizations and journalistic editorial offices – as part of the project “Voices of the War”.