News and press releases

The overall security situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions remained tense. Donetsk city's security situation has remained calm over the last 24 hours. The potential for further armed conflict has created anxiety and fear among the city's population. Other parts of Ukraine remained calm. The SMM has not reestablished contact with the 4 monitors from the Donetsk team and 4 monitors from the Luhansk team with whom it lost contact on 26 May and 29 May respectively.

On 3 June 2014, some 50 of Serbia’s top judicial professionals gathered at an OSCE-conference in Belgrade to discuss the selection process for judges and prosecutors and the reform of the Judicial Academy...

The overall security situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions remained volatile. Other parts of Ukraine remained calm. The SMM has not re-established contact with the 4 monitors from the Donetsk team and 4 monitors from the Luhansk team with whom it lost contact on 26 May and 29 May respectively...

VIENNA, 3 June 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today condemned the continued attacks on and mistreatment of members of the media in eastern and southern Ukraine...

An OSCE-supported report on the activities of National Human Rights Commissioner (Ombudsman) in 2013 was presented at a roundtable discussion at the Financial Police Academy in Koschi, Kazakhstan, on 3 June 2014...

The overall security situation in Donetsk region is tense. The situation in Luhansk region is volatile. SMM has not re-established contact with its monitors from Donetsk and Luhansk with whom contact has been lost...

As discussions on the need to improve effectiveness of the judiciary are gaining pace in Ukraine, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator supported a roundtable meeting on 2 June 2014 with the aim of facilitating dialogue on reforms to the justice system...