News and press releases

VIENNA, 25 November 2015 – At a roundtable discussion today organized by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, members of the Working Group on Self-Regulation in Montenegro adopted their newly-amended Journalists’ Code of Ethics, and also agreed to hold a follow-up roundtable discussion in Podgorica...

The SMM recorded a significant increase of ceasefire violations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including at Donetsk airport. Some of the explosions and gunfire observed were assessed as training or demining activities. The SMM observed long queues of civilian vehicles waiting at government-controlled checkpoints at the contact line and at border crossing points between Ukraine and the Russian Federation...

BELGRADE, 25 November 2015 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier today strongly condemned the deadly attack on a bus in Tunisia, which killed at least 12 and wounded 17 officers of the presidential guard...

ASHGABAT, 25 November 2015 – International standards and best practices on the independence of the judiciary are the focus of an OSCE-supported three-day seminar that opened in Ashgabat today...

VIENNA, 25 November 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said the new law on access to information in Kazakhstan is a major step toward greater transparency and accountability of public bodies, but she also noted that the law still has some shortcomings...

Best practices in reducing and responding to the threat of explosive hazards was the focus of an OSCE-supported three-day visit by a delegation from three Central Asian countries to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), which concluded on 19 November 2015...

MONTREUX, Switzerland, 24 November 2015 – In her keynote address at the Informal Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Seminar on Human Rights, OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Madina Jarbussynova, today outlined the importance of a human rights approach to combating trafficking in persons.