News and press releases

More than 450 administrative and local court judges from all over Ukraine were trained to review election-related disputes at a series of seminars held from 17 September to 1 October 2014 by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine...

COPENHAGEN, 1 October 2014 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 2014 Autumn Meeting, bringing together more than 450 participants from more than 50 countries, opens Friday, 3 October in Geneva, Switzerland...

The SMM continued to monitor the situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions focusing on the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol/Memorandum. While the situation remained calm in the Luhansk region, the SMM observed ongoing fighting at Donetsk International airport and heard sporadic shelling in Donetsk northern sectors (Avdiivka). The SMM also heard artillery and mortar fire in the north-eastern sectors of Mariupol (Sartana and Oktaybr). The SMM monitored a simultaneous release of prisoners between the Ukrainian forces and representatives of “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR”). In Kharkiv the situation remained calm in the hours which followed the toppling of the local Lenin statue.

Many Roma in Ukraine are facing even greater challenges due to the current conflict in the country, says a report released by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 29 September 2014 during the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw.

The SMM continued to monitor the situation in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, where it observed and received reports of shelling in a number of locations, including Shchastya and Donetsk city. In Kharkiv the SMM observed a pro-Ukrainian unity rally which culminated in the removal of a statue of Lenin from one of the city’s central squares...

BISHKEK, 29 September 2014 – Representatives of Ukrainian and Russian journalists’ unions condemned the killing, beating and detention of journalists in the zone of armed conflict in eastern Ukraine in a meeting organized by OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović on 26 September in Vienna...

KYIV, Ukraine, 29 September 2014 – The OSCE Project Co-ordinator jointly with the Social Policy Ministry of Ukraine, today launched, in Kyiv, a project aiming to support social business models as a way to tackle the urgent challenges of trafficking in human beings...