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Swedish Parliament, leading think-tank to host OSCE PA Helsinki +40 seminar next week

Publishing date: 5 March 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 5 March 2015 – The Swedish Parliament and one of the country’s leading think-tanks, The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), will host the next leg of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Helsinki +40 Project in Stockholm on 11 March...

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office expresses condolences after mining accident in eastern Ukraine

Publishing date: 5 March 2015
Collections: Serbian OSCE Chairmanship’s work in resolving the crisis in and around Ukraine
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić today expressed his deepest sympathy over the loss of life in a mining accident at the Zasyadko coal mine in eastern Ukraine

Weekly update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 10:00 (Moscow time), 4 March 2015

Publishing date: 5 March 2015
Content type: Weekly report
Where we are: OSCE Observer Mission at the Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk (discontinued)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM) continues to operate 24/7 at both BCPs. The overall cross-border traffic increased at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). The net flow considerably decreased confirming OM’s predicted return movement into Ukraine. The OM also observed an increase of the number of persons in military-style clothing crossing the border in both directions...

OSCE/ODIHR and Venice Commission launch guidelines on freedom of association

Publishing date: 5 March 2015
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission, launched a new human rights publication offering advice and expertise on how to legislate on and advocate for freedom of association on the margins of the UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva on 5 March 2015.

Building Bridges Fund continues with school grants in 2015

Publishing date: 5 March 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Education
SKOPJE, 5 March 2015 – The OSCE-supported “Building Bridges Fund”, launched in 2014, continues this year with an open call for grants for municipalities, students, teachers, parents and schools that plan to organize joint activities involving students from all communities and different languages of instruction...

Latest from the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 18:00hrs, 4 March 2015

Publishing date: 5 March 2015
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk agreements”. Based on its monitoring – which was restricted by third parties and by security considerations* – the SMM assessed the security situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions as relatively calm.

Media freedom situation in Crimea, Ukraine, at all-time low, OSCE Representative says

Publishing date: 5 March 2015
Collections: Statements from OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media on media freedom situation in Crimea, Ukraine
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media pluralism, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 5 March 2015 – One year on after her assessment visit to Ukraine, which included Simferopol, Crimea, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said the media freedom situation in Crimea has continued to deteriorate...