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Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time) 30 November 2014
Publishing date: 1 December 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 focus its observation on the implementation of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum, including by monitoring activities of the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination (JCCC). In Makiivka, the SMM observed the offloading of three trucks of the Russian convoy coming from the Russian Federation.
Spot report by OSCE Observer Mission at the Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk, 30 November 2014: Russian convoy of 43 vehicles crossed into Ukraine and returned back through the Donetsk Border Crossing Point
Publishing date: 30 November 2014
Content type: Spot report
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
On 30 November 2014 at 09:42 hrs (Moscow time), a Russian convoy consisting of 43 vehicles arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point. The vehicles were checked by the Russian border guard and customs services. On the same day at 21:16 hrs, all vehicles had crossed back into the Russian Federation. This was the seventh Russian convoy crossing through the Donetsk Border Crossing Point since the arrival of the Observer Mission at the Russian Border Crossing Points...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 28 November 2014
Publishing date: 29 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. The SMM monitored the first hearing of a case concerning 15 people accused of participating in the clashes in Odesa on 2 May...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 27 November 2014
Publishing date: 28 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 situation in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, focusing on the implementation of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum. The SMM recorded numerous shelling instances across Donbas. The deputy rector of Donetsk National University in Vinnytsya told the SMM that the university had been re-located from Donetsk...
OSCE helps Ukrainian anti-trafficking NGOs refine ideas for social businesses
Publishing date: 28 November 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Representatives of four Ukrainian civil society organisations had a chance to refine their social business ideas, intended to support their anti-trafficking activities, at a three-day intensive training workshop in Kyiv that ended on Thursday, 27 November 2014. The event organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine in co-operation with the country’s Ministry of Social Policy gathered civil society activists from Kyiv, Lviv, Vinnytsya and Zhytomyr regions...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 26 November 2014
Publishing date: 27 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 situation in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, focusing on the implementation of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum.
Deteriorating journalist’s safety and rise of propaganda threats to free media, OSCE Representative says
Publishing date: 27 November 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development
The deteriorating situation for journalists’ safety and the growing phenomenon of propaganda pose serious threats to free media, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović said today when presenting her latest semi-annual report on media freedom developments in the OSCE region over the past six months...