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OSCE Mission to BiH supports a sitting volleyball tournament in Maglaj
Publishing date: 19 September 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) supported Maglaj Municipality in organizing a sitting volleyball tournament on 19 September 2020 in Maglaj...
Stronger collective efforts needed to protect journalists against growing threats, concludes seventh OSCE South-East Europe Media Conference
Publishing date: 18 September 2020
Content type: Press release
What we do: Media freedom and development
VIENNA/BELGRADE, 18 September 2020 – The seventh South-East Europe Media Conference entitled “The New Frontline: Working together to Foster Media Freedom”, organized jointly by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM) and the OSCE Mission to Serbia, in collaboration with OSCE field operations from South-East Europe, concluded today...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 223/2020 issued on 18 September 2020
Publishing date: 18 September 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 two ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and none in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 14 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and one in Luhansk region. The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote
OSCE supports training webinar on countering financial pyramids and increasing financial literacy of population
Publishing date: 18 September 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Economic activities, Countering terrorism
An OSCE-supported one-day training webinar on fighting financial pyramids and practical aspects of improving the financial literacy of the general population concluded on 18 September 2020...
OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism invoked to examine alleged human rights violations in Belarus
Publishing date: 18 September 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
Seventeen OSCE participating States invoked the OSCE’s so-called Moscow Mechanism on 17 September 2020. Seventeen OSCE participating States invoked the OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism on 17 September 2020 to examine alleged human rights violations in Belarus. The Moscow Mechanism, last invoked in 2018 in
Infodemic toolkit to fight disinformation on COVID-19 launched by OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 18 September 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Media freedom and development
TASHKENT, 18 September 2020- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (PCUz) launches an infodemic toolkit (https://infodemictoolkit.org/en/) for media professionals to counter myths and fake information related to COVID-19. It is available in Uzbek, Russian and English.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 222/2020 issued on 17 September 2020
Publishing date: 17 September 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 14 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and one in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded no ceasefire violations in either Donetsk or Luhansk region. The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and