News and press releases

VIENNA/WARSAW – Maryna Fenina, a national member of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), died in shelling in Kharkiv yesterday, 1 March.

Summary During the evening of 28 February and during the morning on 1 March, the SMM continued to hear multiple explosions and heavy machine-gun fire in and around the cities of Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Kherson. On 1 March, the Monitoring Teams from Donetsk and Luhansk Patrol Hubs in non-government

VIENNA, 1 March 2022- OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM) Teresa Ribeiro presented today a legal analysis of two Maltese draft laws on media. This analysis is written by an independent international media expert and concerns Malta’s Bill of the Act “to amend the Constitution and various other laws to strengthen the right to freedom of expression and the right to privacy and to implement various measures for the protection of the media and of journalists” and of the Bill of the Act “to provide for the establishment of structures for the protection of democratic society, including the protection of journalists, other persons with a role in the media and in non-governmental organisations and persons in public life”.

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo concluded a series of eight workshops that introduced bilingual tools (developed with the OSCE Mission’s help) that will help strengthen communication between Kosovo Police (KP) officers and the communities they serve. Held in close co-operation with the KP and the Office of Language Commissioner (OLC), the workshops hosted a total of 160 supervisors, traffic officers and first responders from all eight KP regional directorates.

The Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) and the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA) concluded a two-day workshop on social reuse of assets confiscated from organized crime, held on 23 and 24 February 2022 in Sarajevo.

WARSAW, 1 March 2022 – Peaceful anti-war protests were able to take place without restriction in the overwhelming majority of OSCE countries following the launch of military action against Ukraine last week, allowing citizens to exercise their right to peaceful protest, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) said in a statement today.

Trends, challenges, lessons learned and best practices in the field of youth crime and drug use prevention, and the need to strengthen educational programmes to foster youth’s understanding on the threats of organized crime, corruption and drug use were discussed at a workshop held on 1 March 2022 in Dushanbe. The Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities and the OSCE Transnational Threats Department co-organized the event with the OSCE Academy in Bishkek.