News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Proportionate measures and partnerships needed to safeguard charities from terrorist abuse in South Eastern Europe
Publishing date: 14 July 2015
SARAJEVO, 14 July 2015-- The non-profit sector is essential to cohesive and democratic societies resilient to terrorism, yet it may be vulnerable to abuses for terrorist financing, warned experts at an OSCE-supported workshop that started today in Sarajevo...
OSCE PA human rights Chair calls for end to anti-Roma rhetoric and actions in Bulgaria
Publishing date: 13 July 2015
COPENHAGEN, 13 July 2015 – The Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions today called for an immediate end to evictions in Roma communities in Bulgaria and criticized political leaders for incidents of hate speech...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 19:30 (Kyiv time), 12 July 2015
Publishing date: 13 July 2015
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*. The SMM continued to observe ceasefire violations at and around the Donetsk airport. No violence was observed in Shyrokyne. The Luhansk region remained largely calm. Repair works on the regional water-supply pipeline leading to Horlivka was suspended due to ceasefire violations on 11 July. The SMM observed protest gatherings of the Right Sector across the country after an armed incident on 11 July in Mukacheve...
OSCE launches report on combating impunity for wartime sexual violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 13 July 2015
SARAJEVO, 13 July 2015 – The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) presented today in Sarajevo its latest report entitled Combating Impunity for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Progress and Challenges...
ODIHR Director Link calls for halting evictions of Roma and anti-Roma rhetoric in Bulgaria
Publishing date: 13 July 2015
WARSAW, 13 July 2015 – Michael Georg Link, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), today called on Bulgarian authorities to immediately address interethnic tension and halt evictions in Roma communities...
Spot Report by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, 12 July 2015: Monitoring events in the wake of deadly shooting in Mukacheve
Publishing date: 13 July 2015
On 12 July, the SMM dispatched a patrol of the Ivano-Frankivsk-based team to monitor events in the wake of an armed incident that reportedly occurred the previous day in Mukacheve (Zakarpattia region, 605km south-west of Kyiv). According to media reports, at least two people were killed – reportedly members of the Right Sector (Pravyi Sektor) – and several others were wounded in a shootout at a café allegedly owned by a member of parliament (Verkhovna Rada)...
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina condemns attack on Serbian Prime Minister
Publishing date: 12 July 2015
SARAJEVO, 12 July 2015- Ambassador Jonathan Moore, Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, has strongly condemned the violent attack on Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic yesterday in Srebrenica...