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Challenges and good practices in safeguarding the judicial independence of administrative courts and tribunals across the OSCE region were the focus of an expert meeting organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw on 22 November 2018. The meeting

Six members of permanent delegations representing their countries in the OSCE were presented with a White Ribbon Award by the OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger, in recognition of their personal commitment and achievements in promoting gender equality. The award ceremony took place at the Hofburg congress centre on 22 November 2018 in Vienna.

MINSK, 22 November 2018 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Martin Sajdik, made the following statement to the press after the meeting of the TCG and its Working Groups in Minsk on 22 November 2018:

The security needs of Jewish communities were at the centre of an event organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Sofia on 22 November 2018. The event, organized in partnership with Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry, the “Shalom” Organization of Jews in Bulgaria

On 22 November at 06:44 (Moscow time), the eighty-first Russian convoy arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). A total of 19 vehicles were checked by Russian Federation border guards and customs officers prior to their crossing into Ukraine. All 19 vehicles had crossed back into the Russian Federation by 15:07 on 22 November...

Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The Mission recorded ceasefire violations near the Zolote disengagement area. It observed weapons in violation of withdrawal lines, mostly in non-government-controlled areas. The SMM facilitated and monitored adherence to the ceasefire to enable repairs to the Petrivske water pumping station near Artema and to the Donetsk Filtration Station as well as assessments of a water pipeline near Pervomaisk. The Mission visited three border areas not under government control. The SMM’s access remained restricted in all three disengagement areas; it was also restricted at compounds in Novoselivka and near Siedove, an area close to the border with the Russian Federation.

A Security Policy Course supported by the OSCE, that gathered some 30 participants from government institutions, law enforcement agencies and armed forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) concluded today, 22 November 2018, in Sarajevo