News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE annual meeting of Police Academies Network explores role of training and education institutions in preventing excessive use of force by police
Publishing date: 1 December 2020
The 2020 OSCE Annual Meeting of the Police Academies Network (PAN), held on 27 November 2020, gathered over 50 participants and focused on how Police Academies can deliver training programmes that develop and strengthen sound attitudes among police in preventing excessive use of force, even in difficult and/or dangerous situations...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 285/2020 issued on 30 November 2020
Publishing date: 30 November 2020
Summary Between the evenings of 27 and 29 November, the SMM recorded 76 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 24 ceasefire violations in the region. Between the evenings of 27 and 29 November, the SMM recorded 87 ceasefire violations in Luhansk
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 284/2020 issued on 28 November 2020
Publishing date: 28 November 2020
Summary The SMM recorded 24 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and five in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 38 ceasefire violation in Donetsk region and none in Luhansk region. The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 283/2020 issued on 27 November 2020
Publishing date: 27 November 2020
Summary The SMM recorded 38 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and none in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded one ceasefire violation in Donetsk region and four in Luhansk region. Three children sustained injuries when an object exploded in Dmytrivka, Donetsk region.
OSCE supports annual general meeting of Balkan Asset Management Interagency Network
Publishing date: 27 November 2020
The OSCE supported the annual general meeting of the Balkan Asset Management Interagency Network (BAMIN) on 26 November 2020, bringing together representatives of national asset management and asset recovery offices of sixteen jurisdictions (14 BAMIN member and three guest jurisdictions), together with officials from the BAMIN Secretariat and the OSCE...
OSCE Presence, Tirana University establish research centre on transitional justice in Albania
Publishing date: 27 November 2020
The OSCE Presence in Albania and the University of Tirana launched the Centre for Justice and Transformation – a multi-disciplinary research centre in the field of transitional justice – at an online event on 26 November 2020...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports civil society organizations in using digital platforms for everyday work
Publishing date: 27 November 2020
To strengthen capacities of civil society organization (CSOs) in using digital platforms, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized two online training courses on 16 and 17 November and from 25 to 27 November 2020.