News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission report assesses access of communities to pre-university education in Kosovo
Publishing date: 18 December 2018
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 18 December 2018 – The OSCE Mission in Kosovo published today a report which assesses the access to pre-university education for non-majority communities in Kosovo. The report, Communities’ Access to Pre-University Education in Kosovo, covers the period from 2014 to 2017 and looks into the provision of education in the majority and community languages...
To address labour shortages, socio-economic integration of migrants is essential, say participants at OSCE discussion in Vienna
Publishing date: 18 December 2018
VIENNA, 18 December 2018- To address labour shortages and allow migrants to be a resource for countries of origin and destination, socio-economic integration is essential, said participants at the OSCE conference held today in Vienna on the occasion of the International Migrants Day...
Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30, 16 December 2018
Publishing date: 17 December 2018
Between the evenings of 14 and 15 December, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, compared with the previous reporting period. Between the evenings of 15 and 16 December, the Mission recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and more in Luhansk region, compared with the previous 24 hours. The SMM followed up on reports of a woman who had sustained injuries due to gunfire in Slovianoserbsk and two men injured in a grenade explosion in Krasnohorivka.
Fifth OSCE simulation-based training in combating human trafficking along migration routes concludes in Vicenza
Publishing date: 17 December 2018
Over 70 anti-trafficking practitioners from more than 30 OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation in Europe, Central Asia and North America practiced how to apply a multi-agency and human rights-based approach during the fifth OSCE international simulation-based training to combat
OSCE parliamentarians call for immediate cessation of hostilities in Ukraine conflict zones
Publishing date: 17 December 2018
KYIV, 17 December 2018 – Leaders from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s human rights and humanitarian committee today called for all sides of the conflict in eastern Ukraine to lay down their weapons as a critical step in finding a lasting solution to the crisis in and around Ukraine.
OSCE trains Montenegrin airport border and customs officers on behavioural analysis and identification of foreign terrorist fighters and criminals at airports
Publishing date: 17 December 2018
A national training course on behavioural analysis and identification of foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) and criminals at airports for 24 border and customs officers from Montenegro’s Podgorica and Tivat airports, the Civil Aviation Agency and the Intelligence Agency of Montenegro was held from 11 to 14 December 2018 in Podgorica...
OSCE in co-operation with UNODC holds regional workshop in Belgrade for high-level policymakers on preventing youth crime and violence
Publishing date: 17 December 2018
How to prevent crime and violence committed by young people by encouraging their engagement in developing life skills, sports and education was explored at a workshop for around 30 high-level policymakers from South-East Europe organized in Belgrade on 17 December 2018 by the Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department in co-operation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the OSCE Mission to Serbia...