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Latest from the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 18:00hrs (Kyiv time), 4 December 2014
Publishing date: 5 December 2014
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum and the work of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC). Shelling in the northern outskirts of Donetsk intensified over the last 48hrs.
OSCE Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues marks 20 years since its creation
Publishing date: 5 December 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Roma and Sinti
WARSAW, 5 December 2014 – Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Budapest Summit, when the OSCE participating States signalled their commitment to improving the situation of Roma and Sinti in the OSCE region by creating a Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues (CPRSI). Since then, the CPRSI has been instrumental in addressing the historic discrimination and persecution of Roma and Sinti and in promoting their inclusion in the region...
Arrest of journalist latest case of crackdown of free media in Azerbaijan, says OSCE Representative
Publishing date: 5 December 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
BASEL, Switzerland, 5 December 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today condemned the arrest of Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismailova...
OSCE brings Albanian, Montenegrin parliamentary committees together to tackle cross-border environmental issues
Publishing date: 5 December 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Environmental activities
SHKODËR, Albania, 5 December 2015- Two parliamentary committees from Albania and Montenegro met on 5 December 2014 in the Albanian town of Shkodra to discuss cross-border environmental issues. The event was organized by the OSCE Presence in Albania and the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, in partnership with the parliaments of the two countries, with the aim of promoting bilateral co-operation and strengthening the legislative process on environmental issues.
Journalists’ protection of sources must be safeguarded, OSCE Representative says following probe in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 5 December 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
BASEL, 5 December 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today called on the authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina to improve journalists’ rights following a probe launched to identify confidential sources...
OSCE PA human rights chair speaks to released Kazakhstani activist
Publishing date: 5 December 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BASEL, 5 December 2014 – The chair of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s human rights committee, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), spoke on 4 December via telephone with Kazakhstani labor activist Roza Tuletayeva, who was released from prison on 19 November...
OSCE Mission concludes training for responders to domestic violence in Kosovo
Publishing date: 5 December 2014
The last in a series of five workshops on standard operating procedures for protecting people from domestic violence concluded in Prishtinë/Priština on 5 December 2014. The workshops, organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and the Kosovo Agency for Gender Equality, have trained a total of 200 police officers, social workers, victims’ advocates, doctors, shelters’ staff, teachers, judges, and prosecutors...