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OSCE and Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry open public council office in Shaartuz district, Tajikistan
Publishing date: 20 April 2018
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Reform and co-operation in the security sector
The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe and Tajikistan's Interior Ministry opened the first Public Council under the jurisdiction of the Interior Ministry devoted to promoting community policing in Tajikistan, on 19 April 2018 in the Shaartuz district of the province of Khatlon...
OSCE supports gender mainstreaming in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 20 April 2018
Gender mainstreaming in local governments and election campaigns was the focus of an OSCE-supported training seminar for 30 high-level local government executives and local district legislators from the Zhambyl Region, held on 20 April 2018 in Taraz, Kazakhstan...
OSCE trains transport police in Kazakhstan on risk profiling at transportation facilities
Publishing date: 20 April 2018
An OSCE-supported five-day training seminar on risk profiling techniques to ensure public safety at transportation facilities concluded on 20 April 2018 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30, 18 April 2018
Publishing date: 19 April 2018
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions compared with the previous reporting period. The SMM followed up on reports of a boy who had been injured by an ordnance explosion in Kostiantynivka. The Mission facilitated the access of Voda Donbassa water company employees to and from the Donetsk Filtration Station – after employees came under small-arms fire and were wounded by it the day before – resulting in the suspension of the DFS operations. The SMM saw damage caused by shelling in residential areas of Dokuchaievsk. The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske; it recorded ceasefire violations near the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area. Its access remained restricted in all three disengagement areas and elsewhere.*
ODIHR Director urges Armenian authorities to protect and ensure right to freedom of peaceful assembly
Publishing date: 19 April 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
WARSAW, 19 April 2018 – Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), today urged the authorities in Armenia to protect and ensure the right to freedom of peaceful assembly in the country, as protests there continue...
Second annual Media Fellowship programme for young journalists launched by OSCE Mission in Kosovo
Publishing date: 19 April 2018
The second annual Media Fellowship, an initiative of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo to build the capacities of young journalists and establish a network of fellows from communities living in Kosovo, was launched on 17 April 2018...
OSCE/ODIHR training in Prishtinë/Priština builds capacity of police officers working with Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities
Publishing date: 19 April 2018
Content type: News
What we do: Roma and Sinti
Strengthening the capacity of law enforcement personnel working with Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities to ensure the protection and promotion of human rights in the course of policing was the focus of a training course organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), from 17 to 19 April 2018 in Prishtinë/Priština.