News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 184/2020 issued on 4 August 2020
Publishing date: 4 August 2020
Summary The SMM recorded no ceasefire violations in Donetsk region (compared with one in the previous 24 hours) and three ceasefire violations in Luhansk region (compared with two in the previous 24 hours). From 00:01 on 27 July until the end of the reporting period, the SMM recorded a total of 246
Weekly Update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 4 August 2020
Publishing date: 4 August 2020
KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKIY, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM) continues to operate 24/7 at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). The overall number of border crossings by persons increased at both BCPs compared to the previous week...
OSCE provides protective gear to its Tajik partners to fight COVID-19
Publishing date: 4 August 2020
The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe provided practical assistance items worth of 50,000 euro to its partners in Tajik ministries, law enforcement agencies, local executive bodies and civil society in order to strengthen efforts to address the COVID-19 pandemic. The Office delivered and handed the items over to its partners in the Dushanbe, Sughd, Rasht, Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous and Khatlon regions from 22 July to 4 August 2020...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 183/2020 issued on 3 August 2020
Publishing date: 3 August 2020
Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, between the evenings of 31 July and 1 August, the SMM recorded 15 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region (compared with nine during the previous reporting period) and no ceasefire violations in Luhansk region (compared with 93 during the previous
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 182/2020 issued on 1 August 2020
Publishing date: 1 August 2020
Summary The SMM recorded nine ceasefire violations in Donetsk region (compared with one during the previous reporting period) and 93 ceasefire violations in Luhansk region (compared with none during the previous reporting period). From 00:01 on 27 July until the end of the reporting period, the SMM
Statement on the 45th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act
Publishing date: 1 August 2020
COPENHAGEN, 1 August 2020- On the forty-fifth anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act, Present and former Presidents of the OSCE PA issued the following statement...
OSCE/ODIHR calls for remembrance of and education about Roma genocide as key to avoiding recurrence of past atrocities
Publishing date: 1 August 2020
WARSAW, 1 August 2020- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today joins the international community in marking 76 years since the Nazis murdered the remaining 3,000 Roma men, women and children in Zigeunerlager, the "Gypsy camp" at Auschwitz-Birkenau on 2 August 1944. While the number of Roma victims remains unknown, it is estimated that up to 500,000 Roma and Sinti people died under the Nazi regime, as well as its allies and collaborators...