News and press releases

At 08:12 on 9 December, at a checkpoint near Olenivka (non-government-controlled, 23km south-west of Donetsk), Donetsk region, a member of the armed formations delayed the passage of an SMM patrol with Deputy Chief Monitor Mark Etherington on board...

On the morning of 9 December, the armed formations in Luhansk region denied the SMM passage to non-government-controlled areas twice. The SMM patrols were travelling from government-controlled areas...

To help improve border security of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the OSCE Mission to BiH, held a training course on identifying forged travel documents for instructors at the Agency for Education and Professional Training of the BiH Ministry of Security, from 6 to 10 December 2021 in Mostar.

On the eve of International Human Rights Day, on 9 December 2021 the OSCE Presence in Albania organized a regional roundtable discussion for equality bodies and independent human rights institutions. Representatives from the Western Balkans discussed, in the hybrid-format meeting, their role and interactions with respect to judicial proceedings.

An online seminar on how to make the work of Aarhus Centres sustainable was organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat on December 9, 2021. Its participants presented best practices from OSCE participating States in implementing effective approaches for making them sustainable, taking into account their legal status

A three-day training course on basic business skills, organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan, concluded on 27 November 2021 in Aralsk city in the Kyzylorda province of Kazakhstan. Some 15 rural women from the Aral Sea region attended the event.

An OSCE-organized online course for law students on promoting international human rights standards in criminal proceedings and investigations took place in Ashgabat from 6 to 10 December 2021.