News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Weekly update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 08:00 (Moscow time), on 8 October 2014
Publishing date: 8 October 2014
KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM) is operating at full capacity. Cross-border traffic flows remained relatively steady at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs) although the total number of border-crossings has decreased. Similar to the previous week, more people left the Russian Federation (RF) for Ukraine at the two observed BCPs. However, the OM observed an increased number of persons in military-style clothing crossing the border in both directions, some of them apparently belonging to Cossack units. Truck convoys transport coal from the Luhansk region to the RF since the local cross-border railway track is reportedly non-operational...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 6 October 2014
Publishing date: 7 October 2014
Focusing on the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum, the SMM continued monitoring the situation in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, still noting that violence is continuing in a number of places.
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 5 October 2014
Publishing date: 6 October 2014
Focusing on the implementation of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum, the SMM continued monitoring the situation in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions where shelling continued to take place. The situation in the other regions of Ukraine remained calm.
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine supports development of manual on gender-sensitive and non-discriminatory media reporting
Publishing date: 6 October 2014
A draft manual supported by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator on how media professionals can take a gender-sensitive and non-discriminatory approach in their reporting is now open to suggestions and feedback from journalists, civil society and academia, before it is published later this year...
High Commissioner on National Minorities addresses OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Autumn Meeting on Ukraine crisis
Publishing date: 6 October 2014
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Astrid Thors addressed the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Autumn Meeting in Geneva on 3 October 2014, and participated in the debate on Ukraine...
Human rights, humanitarian issues the focus of closing session at OSCE PA Autumn Meeting
Publishing date: 5 October 2014
GENEVA, 5 October 2014 – Human rights and humanitarian issues were the focus of presentations and parliamentary debate on the final day of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 2014 Autumn Meeting in Geneva...
Climate change, environment-technology connection at center of OSCE PA Autumn Meeting day two
Publishing date: 4 October 2014
GENEVA, 4 October 2014 – Climate change and the connections between environment and technology took center stage on day two of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Autumn Meeting, which has brought together some 200 parliamentarians from more than 50 nations in Geneva this week...