News and press releases

Focusing on the implementation of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum, the SMM continued monitoring the situation in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions where shelling continued to take place. The situation in the other regions of Ukraine remained calm.

A draft manual supported by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator on how media professionals can take a gender-sensitive and non-discriminatory approach in their reporting is now open to suggestions and feedback from journalists, civil society and academia, before it is published later this year...

OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Astrid Thors addressed the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Autumn Meeting in Geneva on 3 October 2014, and participated in the debate on Ukraine...

SOFIA, 6 October 2014 – Although Bulgaria’s early parliamentary elections on 5 October were well administered technically and fundamental freedoms were respected, allegations from all sides of vote buying and selling and other election irregularities, as well as a campaign that lacked substance continued to negatively affect public confidence in the integrity of the process, international observers said in a statement issued today...

Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Ambassador Janina Hrebickova signed on 26 September 2014 a Memorandum of Understanding on further co-operation with the Gender Equality Department of the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights, and the Municipality of Rozaje to promote women’s participation in public and political life...

GENEVA, 5 October 2014 – Human rights and humanitarian issues were the focus of presentations and parliamentary debate on the final day of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 2014 Autumn Meeting in Geneva...

KYIV, 4 October 2014- The Trilateral Contact Group of senior representatives of Ukraine, the Russian Federation and the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office held a meeting in Kyiv on 2 October 2014, to discuss further steps towards the implementation of the Peace Plan of the President of Ukraine.