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OSCE Centre in Astana facilitates meeting on application of administrative sanctions

Publishing date: 27 November 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Policing
The OSCE Centre in Astana supported a meeting of the Law Enforcement Co-ordination Council dedicated to the application of administrative sanctions that was held on 27 November 2014 in Astana, Kazakhstan...

Spot report by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), 26 November 2014: OSCE SMM Patrol Fired Upon

Publishing date: 26 November 2014
Content type: Spot report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
A rocket-propelled grenade and multiple anti-aircraft rounds were fired at an SMM patrol on 26 November.

Weekly update from the Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 10:00 (Moscow time), 26 November 2014

Publishing date: 26 November 2014
Content type: Weekly report
Where we are: OSCE Observer Mission at the Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk (discontinued)
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution
Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM)’s mandate has been extended until 23 December. It continues to operate 24/7 at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). Overall cross-border traffic flows increased at both BCPs. Traffic flows turned again and slightly more people entered than left the Russian Federation (RF) at the two observed BCPs. The OM continued to observe a significant number of persons in military-style clothing crossing the border in both directions.

Shutdown of independent magazine in Kazakhstan further endangers media pluralism, says OSCE Representative

Publishing date: 26 November 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 26 November 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said that a court injunction forcing the shutdown of the weekly magazine ADAMbol in Kazakhstan poses a threat to free media in the country.

Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 25 November 2014

Publishing date: 26 November 2014
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum and the activities of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC). In Kharkiv another explosion occurred...

Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 24 November 2014

Publishing date: 26 November 2014
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum and the activities of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination...

Real men never hit women, says OSCE Mission in Kosovo’s campaign for 16 Days of Activism against Violence against Women

Publishing date: 26 November 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights, Gender equality
The OSCE Mission in Kosovo launched on 26 November 2014 in Prishtinë/Priština an anti-domestic violence campaign dubbed “Real man never hit women”...