News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Effectiveness of gender equality mechanisms at local level in Ukraine focus of OSCE/ODIHR-organized workshop
Publishing date: 19 February 2016
The effectiveness of gender equality mechanisms at the local level in Ukraine was the focus of a workshop organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights (ODIHR), in co-operation with the Equal Opportunities Inter-Faction Union of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s Parliament, in Kharkiv, on 19 February 2016.
Tajik Ministry of Internal Affairs officials complete OSCE-organized training course on effective intervention in domestic violence cases
Publishing date: 19 February 2016
DUSHANBE, 19 February 2016 – A four-day training course organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan on effective intervention by police inspectors in domestic violence cases, concluded in Dushanbe today...
OSCE/ODIHR regional conference stresses need for regulation of political financing
Publishing date: 19 February 2016
Some 120 political officials, civil society representatives, international experts and members of academia from more than 30 countries discussed practical steps towards improving political finance regulations in Eastern and Central Europe at a conference co-organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Tbilisi on 18 and 19 February 2016.
OSCE Chief Monitor in Ukraine welcomes extension of Special Monitoring Mission’s mandate
Publishing date: 18 February 2016
KYIV, 18 February 2016 – The Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, Ertugrul Apakan, expressed his gratitude to all 57 OSCE participating States for their support for the Mission, following a consensus decision today to extend the SMM’s mandate to 31 March 2017...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 17 February 2016
Publishing date: 18 February 2016
The SMM observed a number of ceasefire violations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The SMM observed damage to homes caused by recent shelling. The Mission continued to monitor the withdrawal of weapons. The SMM observed long lines of civilians and vehicles waiting at checkpoints close to the contact line, which it attributed to the closure of the Marinka checkpoint. In Odessa, the SMM observed activists at a checkpoint for trucks from the Russian Federation transiting through Ukraine...
Spot Report by the Observer Mission at the Russian checkpoints of Gukovo and Donetsk: A forty-eighth Russian convoy of 39 vehicles crossed into Ukraine and returned back through the Donetsk Border Crossing Point
Publishing date: 18 February 2016
On 18 February 2016 at 07:00hrs (Moscow time), a Russian convoy arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). A total of 39 vehicles were checked by the Russian border guard and customs services. All of 39 vehicles had crossed back into the Russian Federation by 13:50hrs on 18 February...
OSCE Mission to Skopje-supported fund continues building bridges between communities
Publishing date: 18 February 2016
SKOPJE, 18 February 2016 – The OSCE-supported Building Bridges Fund, launched in 2014, will continue for a third year, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje Nina Suomalainen announced today...