News and press releases

SARAJEVO, 12 December 2017 – The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina marked the successful completion of the War Crimes Capacity Building Project at a ceremony in Sarajevo today. The project was a part of the OSCE Mission’s long-standing support to the development of the judiciary and its capacity to process war crimes cases...

A two-day sub-regional training on the role of cyber/ICT in the context of regional and international security, organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department in co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, is taking place on 12-13 December 2017 in Astana.

An OSCE-supported five-day regional seminar for expert-evaluators of member countries of the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing (EAG) started on 11 December 2017 in Tashkent.

VIENNA, 11 December 2017 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir today opened the panel discussion on the challenges to media freedom caused by the impunity for murders of journalists...

The SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions between the evenings of 8 and 9 December compared with the previous reporting period. The SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and a similar number in Luhansk region between the evenings of 9 and 10 December compared with the previous 24 hours. The SMM followed up on reports of a civilian casualty and assessed damage to civilian properties in Dokuchaievsk. The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske; it recorded ceasefire violations inside the Zolote disengagement area. Its access remained restricted in the disengagement areas and elsewhere, including at a checkpoint near Horlivka.* The SMM facilitated and monitored repairs to the broken wooden ramps at the Stanytsia Luhanska bridge. The SMM monitored the situation at checkpoints in Zolote. It facilitated and monitored repairs and maintenance of essential infrastructure near Berezove. The SMM visited four border areas outside of government control. In Kyiv, it monitored a peaceful march in the city centre.

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro contributed to the global campaign on 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence by supporting four public discussions with students from six Montenegrin schools.

OSCE-supported public hearings on the management of public assemblies and ways to increase the level of trust between law enforcement and citizens took place at Kazakhstan’s Interior Ministry in Astana on 8 December 2017...