News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine trains children on human rights
Publishing date: 24 November 2015
More than 50 school children from all over Ukraine were trained on human rights principles, from 19 to 20 November 2015 in Odesa, during the events organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and the Office of the Parliament’s Commissioner for Human Rights...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 22 November 2015
Publishing date: 23 November 2015
The SMM observed a number of explosions and gunfire in Donetsk and Luhansk region; on 22 November, it recorded an increase of ceasefire violations around Donetsk airport. The SMM followed up on media reports of explosions damaging power supply pylons and subsequent disruption of power supply across the administrative boundary line between Kherson region and Crimea. Events marking the second anniversary of Maidan events were held across the country...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission facilitated retrieval of the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier’s body
Publishing date: 22 November 2015
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, on 19 November 2015, facilitated and monitored adherence to the ceasefire on the contact line near Zolote, Luhansk region, enabling the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) medics to recover the body of a member of the UAF demining team. He had reportedly been killed in a mine accident on 15 November, along with the two colleagues...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 20 November 2015
Publishing date: 21 November 2015
The SMM recorded four ceasefire violations in the wider area of Donetsk airport and no ceasefire violations in Luhansk region...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 19 November 2015
Publishing date: 20 November 2015
The SMM was denied access to an “LPR”-controlled crossing point on the Ukraine-Russian Federation border, but recorded no ceasefire violations around Donetsk airport.
Civil registration and personal identification documents for Roma in Ukraine are crucial for ensuring their fundamental rights and equality, say participants at OSCE/ODIHR seminar
Publishing date: 20 November 2015
The importance of civil registration and personal identification documents and the negative effects on Roma in Ukraine who lack these documents were the focus of an expert seminar organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), in co-operation with the Ukrainian Parliament’s Commissioner for Human Rights in Kyiv on 19 and 20 November 2015.
High Commissioner Thors, in address to OSCE Permanent Council, highlights participation of national minorities and role of education in conflict prevention
Publishing date: 19 November 2015
In her statement to the Permanent Council on 19 November 2015, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Astrid Thors provided information on her institution’s activities since July 2015 highlighting its thematic work as well as the situation in Ukraine...