News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 3 February 2014
Publishing date: 4 February 2015
The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum. The security situation in the Donetsk region remained tense, including continuous shelling observed by the SMM. The SMM lost contact with one UAV 16km north of Mariupol...
OSCE/ODIHR launches guidelines on registration and recognition of religious or belief communities
Publishing date: 4 February 2015
A new publication on the issues of registration and recognition of religious or belief communities was launched by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights (ODIHR) at an event hosted by the European Parliament in Brussels on 4 February 2015.
OSCE/ODIHR experts discuss follow-up to final report on 2013 presidential election with Czech authorities
Publishing date: 4 February 2015
Elections experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) met in Prague with representatives of the Czech Ministry of the Interior on 4 February 2015 to discuss the follow-up on the recommendations from ODIHR’s final report on the 11-12 January 2013 presidential election.
Young musicians from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River perform together in Chisinau
Publishing date: 4 February 2015
CHISINAU, 4 February 2015 – Young musicians from Chisinau, Tiraspol, Bender, Ribnita and Pervomaysk performed today together at the Chisinau National Philharmonic Concert Hall in a concert organized by the OSCE Mission to Moldova...
Large fines imposed on media outlets in Bulgaria may lead to censorship in reporting on issues of public interest, says Mijatović
Publishing date: 4 February 2015
VIENNA, 4 February 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today raised concern over large fines imposed on newspapers in Bulgaria for publishing news stories on companies’ financial activities and the banking sector...
OSCE Programme Office continues training judges on combating human trafficking
Publishing date: 4 February 2015
ASTANA, 4 February 2015 – The first in a series of six two-day training seminars for judges in 2015, on good legislative and judicial practices to combat trafficking in human beings began today in Astana...
Spot report by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), 3 February 2015: Civilians killed and wounded in strike with cluster munitions in Izvestkova Street in Luhansk city
Publishing date: 3 February 2015
At approximately 18:15hrs and 22:45hrs on 27 January, the SMM, based in Luhansk city centre (“Lugansk People’s Republic” –“LPR”-controlled), heard intensive incoming shelling and impact explosions about 5km west of its location. On 28 January, upon receipt of information about shelling from the Russian Federation Armed Forces staff, assigned to the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC) in Luhansk city, the SMM departed to the south-western suburbs of the city at 10:30hrs.