News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 271/2020 issued on 13 November 2020
Publishing date: 13 November 2020
Summary The SMM recorded three ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and three in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 90 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and seven in Luhansk region. The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska,
Head of the OSCE Mission to BiH and Ambassadors in Bosnia and Herzegovina condemn recent attacks on journalist in the country
Publishing date: 13 November 2020
SARAJEVO, 13 November 2020 – The Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Ambassadors of Germany, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States once again strongly condemn continuous attacks and undue pressure on the media in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including the most recent cases in Banja Luka and Visoko...
OSCE and UN Office on Drugs and Crime deliver online train-the-trainer course to enhance Albania’s capacities to financially disrupt terrorist networks
Publishing date: 13 November 2020
The OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department’s Action against Terrorism Unit, in co-operation with the OSCE Presence in Albania and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) organized an online train-the-trainer course from 11 to 13 November 2020, with the aim of further strengthening Albania’s capacities in countering the financing of terrorism...
OSCE Mission supports annual Donors Forum for civil society organizations from both banks of Dniester/Nistru River
Publishing date: 13 November 2020
More than 100 representatives of civil society organizations and initiative groups from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River, and development partners gathered for the annual Donors Forum organized by the OSCE Mission to Moldova on 12 November. This year the Forum took place online and had a specific focus on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic...
OSCE “Debating Perspectives 2030 Roadshow” arrives in Central Asia
Publishing date: 13 November 2020
The OSCE’s “Debating Perspectives 2030 Roadshow” held its first event in Central Asia on 13 November 2020 bringing together 38 young women and men from Central Asia to discuss their vision for a safer future. The OSCE Academy, with the support of the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, hosted the event...
Impunity for human rights abuses in Belarus must end, OSCE human rights office says
Publishing date: 13 November 2020
WARSAW, 13 November 2020 – As pervasive violations of OSCE commitments and international human rights obligations in Belarus continue, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) calls on the country’s authorities to end impunity of those responsible for human rights violations, up to and including deaths, and hold them to account...
OSCE leading by example in prevention of human trafficking within supply chains
Publishing date: 13 November 2020
The risks surrounding procuring goods and services produced by trafficked persons were the focus of the OSCE virtually held workshop on 13 November 2020...