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OSCE Representative welcomes transparent process to create policy document for information security in Ukraine, presents legal analysis
Publishing date: 22 July 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws
VIENNA, 22 July 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today welcomed the transparency and openness of the process to create the draft Information Security Concept of Ukraine. She also presented a legal analysis of the document commissioned by her Office...
Weekly Update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 21 July 2015
Publishing date: 22 July 2015
Content type: Weekly report
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM) continues to operate 24/7 at both BCPs. The overall cross-border traffic increased at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs)...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 19:30 (Kyiv time), 20 July 2015
Publishing date: 21 July 2015
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements.” Its monitoring was restricted by third parties and security considerations*. After a volatile weekend, the SMM did not record any ceasefire violations in the monitored areas at Donetsk airport and in and around Donetsk city. The security situation in Luhansk region remained relatively calm. The SMM followed up on one explosion having occurred in the night of 19-20 July in Odessa. Activities of the Right Sector noticeably decreased across Ukraine.
Today's agreement on withdrawal of weapons gives boost to the whole process, says OSCE CiO Dacic after meeting with the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk
Publishing date: 21 July 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
MINSK, 21 July 2015 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić, has stressed the need to seize the momentum of today's agreement on the withdrawal of tanks and certain weapons under 100 mm calibre for further advancement of the process during his first visit to Minsk today.
OSCE supports training seminar on use of e-money and crypto currency in combating money laundering and financing of terrorism
Publishing date: 21 July 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Countering terrorism
ASTANA, 21 July 2015- A two-day training seminar on the risks associated with the use of electronic money and crypto currency in the context of combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism started today in Astana. The event was co-organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana and the Committee of Financial Monitoring under the Ministry of Finance of Kazakhstan...
OSCE Mission to Moldova trains lawyers on human rights issues
Publishing date: 21 July 2015
On 17-19 July 2015, the OSCE Mission to Moldova held a three-day training event for 21 lawyers from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River on representing the fundamental rights of potential clients before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The training was held at Vadul-lui-Vodă, a town on the bank of the river...
OSCE promotes social entrepreneurship to prevent human trafficking in Ukraine
Publishing date: 21 July 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
ZHYTOMYR, VINNYTSIA, LVIV, 21 JULY 2015- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU), jointly with Ukraine’s Social Policy Ministry, conducted a series of round tables to launch a project in support of social entrepreneurship as a tool to address challenges of trafficking in human beings held on 20-21 July...