News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
2015 Annual Security Review Conference provides platform for debate on current security challenges
Publishing date: 25 June 2015
VIENNA, 25 June 2015- Current security challenges in the OSCE area and how the Organization can use its comprehensive toolbox as well as co-operation with other international and regional organizations to address them were the focus of the 2015 Annual Security Review Conference, which took place in Vienna on 23-25 June...
OSCE PA Annual Session: Ukraine crisis, refugee tragedy, climate change feature in Draft Resolutions
Publishing date: 25 June 2015
COPENHAGEN, 25 June 2015 – The crisis in and around Ukraine, the plight of migrants and refugees, arms control, climate change and minority rights are among a diverse array of critical security issues on the agenda at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Annual Session next month...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 19:30 (Kyiv time), 23 June 2015
Publishing date: 24 June 2015
The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements”. Its monitoring was restricted by third parties and security considerations*. The situation at and around the Donetsk airport remained tense. The situation remained relatively calm in Mariupol and Shyrokyne. The overall situation in the Luhansk region remained tense...
OSCE media freedom representative condemns killing of journalist in Poland
Publishing date: 23 June 2015
BONN, Germany, 23 June 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today strongly condemned the recent killing of the Polish journalist Łukasz Masiak. Mijatović also expressed her sincere condolences to Masiak’s family and colleagues...
Safety of journalists must be ensured at all times, OSCE Representative says, following attacks on journalists in Armenia
Publishing date: 23 June 2015
BONN, Germany, 23 June 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said journalists’ safety must be ensured at all times, following recent incidents and coercive actions by police against journalists covering public protest in Yerevan, Armenia...
OSCE media freedom representative calls for immediate release of Al Jazeera journalist arrested in Germany
Publishing date: 22 June 2015
VIENNA, 22 June 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today criticized the detention of an Al Jazeera reporter by the German authorities on the basis of an Egyptian arrest warrant, calling for his immediate release...
Attacks on journalists, increasing propaganda threats to free media, OSCE Representative tells participating States
Publishing date: 18 June 2015
VIENNA, 18 June 2015 – With attacks on journalists rising at a rapid pace and the proliferation of propaganda growing, journalism itself is under attack, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović told the Permanent Council today as she reported on recent media freedom developments in the OSCE region...