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Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30, 22 November 2017
Publishing date: 23 November 2017
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The SMM continued to see the presence of at least 100 armed persons as well as of vehicles, including armoured personnel carriers, in Luhansk city centre. The Mission recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and a similar number in Luhansk region compared with the previous reporting period. The SMM continued monitoring the disengagement areas; it recorded a ceasefire violation inside the Petrivske disengagement area, outside the reporting period. Its access remained restricted in the disengagement areas and elsewhere, including again near Kreminets and in Luhansk city.* The Mission facilitated and monitored repairs of power lines in Betmanove. The SMM continued to monitor the situation of civilians travelling across the contact line. It visited a border area not under government control in Donetsk region. The SMM monitored a gathering in Kyiv....
OSCE Representative Désir, in Moscow, calls on Russian Federation to urgently step up efforts to ensure safety of journalists and media freedom
Publishing date: 23 November 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
MOSCOW, 23 November 2017 – During his visit to Moscow, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir expressed deep concern about the media freedom situation in the Russian Federation.
OSCE/ODIHR builds capacity of Ukrainian police in preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based violence
Publishing date: 23 November 2017
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Policing
Increasing responses to sexual and gender-based violence in Ukraine was the topic of a capacity building event, co-organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), bringing together police educators and officers from across the country in Kyiv on 22 and 23 November 2017.
Spot Report by OSCE Observer Mission: 69th Russian convoy of 20 vehicles crossed into Ukraine and returned through Donetsk Border Crossing Point
Publishing date: 23 November 2017
Content type: Spot report
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
On 23 November 2017 at 06:35 (Moscow time), the sixty-ninth Russian convoy arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). A total of 20 vehicles were checked by the Russian border guards and customs services prior to their crossing into Ukraine. All 20 vehicles had crossed back into the Russian Federation by 14:40 on 23 November....
Participants in the first Ukrainian Women’s Congress focus on advancing women’s rights
Publishing date: 23 November 2017
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Gender equality
The first nationwide Ukrainian Women’s Congress, organized by the Equal Opportunities Caucus of the country’s parliament with support from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and other partners, took place in Kyiv on 22 and 23 November 2017.
OSCE Programme Office in Astana completes 2017 series of seminars on human rights protection mechanisms in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 23 November 2017
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Human rights, Good governance
The last in a series of four OSCE-supported training seminars for representatives of the government, civil society and judiciary on human rights protection mechanisms in Kazakhstan was completed on 23 November 2017, in the Atyrau region.
OSCE Programme Office in Astana supports roundtable discussion on development of religious legislation in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 23 November 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Human rights, Tolerance and non-discrimination