News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Montenegro presents results of “Prevention of early marriages among vulnerable groups” project
Publishing date: 15 November 2019
The results of the project on prevention of early marriages among vulnerable groups were presented at an event organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro on 14 November 2019 in Podgorica.
OSCE introduces concept of dialogue policing to senior police officers and parliamentarians in Armenia
Publishing date: 15 November 2019
Policing public order based on democratic principles was the focus of a roundtable discussion organized by the Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department in Yerevan on 14 November 2019 for 11 high-level Armenian police officers and five Members of Parliament from the Standing Committee on Defence and Security...
Hate crime victims disadvantaged by gaps between hate crime legislation and implementation, OSCE human rights head says
Publishing date: 15 November 2019
WARSAW, 15 November 2019 – Marking the International Day for Tolerance on 16 November with the publication of its annual hate crime dataset, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) urges countries to implement hate crime legislation that has existed on their law books for many years...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 270/2019 issued on 14 November 2019
Publishing date: 14 November 2019
Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and fewer in Luhansk region. The SMM was notified by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and by the armed formations in non-government-controlled areas of Donetsk region that the withdrawal of
OSCE Mobile Training Team trains Serbian border officers in identifying foreign terrorist fighters
Publishing date: 14 November 2019
The OSCE Mobile Training Team delivered an interactive training course on the identification of foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) for 25 first- and second-line Serbian border officers as well as officials of the country’s Security Information Agency from 12 to 14 November 2019 in Belgrade...
National minorities in focus: SG Montella addresses conference in Lund and receives visit of HCNM Zannier in Copenhagen
Publishing date: 14 November 2019
LUND, Sweden, 14 November 2019 – OSCE PA Secretary General Roberto Montella has addressed this morning a high-level conference organized by the Office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Lund Recommendations on the effective participation of national minorities in public life...
Spot Report by OSCE Observer Mission: Eighty-ninth Russian convoy of 14 vehicles crossed into Ukraine and returned through Donetsk Border Crossing Point
Publishing date: 14 November 2019
On 14 November at 06:45 (Moscow time), the eighty-ninth Russian convoy arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). A total of 14 vehicles were checked by Russian Federation border guards and customs officers prior to their crossing into Ukraine. All 14 vehicles had crossed back into the Russian Federation by 13:07 on 14 November...