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OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan supports development of returned migrants, building their professional and entrepreneurship capacities
Publishing date: 6 November 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (PCUz) held a three-week capacity-building training course to help re-integrate returning labour migrants, which concluded on 6 November 2020. The event was organized in co-operation with the Agency for External Labour Migration under the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations of the Republic of Uzbekistan (the Agency), and took place at Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT).
OSCE trains future trainers in rights and duties of journalists in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 6 November 2020
On 6 November 2020, journalists, representatives of the Bar Association and the Supreme Court of Turkmenistan, as well as representatives of the Institute of State, Law and Democracy successfully completed an OSCE-organized advanced online train-the-trainer course on the rights and duties of journalists.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 264/2020 issued on 5 November 2020
Publishing date: 5 November 2020
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Summary The SMM recorded three ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and one in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 27 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and seven in Luhansk region. The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska,
Moscow Mechanism rapporteur reports to OSCE Permanent Council on alleged human rights violations in Belarus
Publishing date: 5 November 2020
The OSCE Moscow Mechanism rapporteur Wolfgang Benedek presented his report to the OSCE Permanent Council on 5 November 2020 concerning alleged human rights violations related to the 9 August presidential elections in Belarus...
COVID-19 creating risks for human trafficking crisis, say anti-trafficking leaders from over 50 countries in joint OSCE-Council of Europe meeting
Publishing date: 5 November 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
VIENNA, 5 November 2020- Leaders of anti-trafficking efforts from over 50 countries across Europe, North America and Central Asia met online on 3 and 4 November 2020 for the largest annual meeting of its kind focused on human trafficking at the international level. The event, jointly organized by the OSCE and the Council of Europe, focused on challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic to anti-trafficking responses...
Crisis management, new challenges and enhanced co-ordination in border management focus of Central Asian Border Management Initiative 2020
Publishing date: 5 November 2020
The current global health crisis, associated challenges for border agencies in Central Asia and Afghanistan as well as the need to enhance co-ordination in the region, were the focus of the four-day Conference of the Central Asia Border Management Initiative (CABMI) held from 2 to 5 November.
OSCE PA leaders vigorously condemn recent terror attacks, call for increased social cohesion at times of unprecedented health and economic challenges
Publishing date: 5 November 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Countering terrorism
COPENHAGEN, 4 November 2020 – The leaders of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly firmly condemn the terror attack which took place in Vienna on Monday, killing at least four people and injuring 22. “We stand in solidarity with the families of the victims and wish a speedy and full recovery to those injured in these horrific events. Vienna is the home of the OSCE and of international diplomacy, and its citizens have always stood by multiculturalism and tolerance,” stressed OSCE PA President George Tsereteli...