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OSCE supports establishment of State-level association of social workers in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 11 October 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Education
SARAJEVO, 11 October 2018 –The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) supported the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Sarajevo and unions of social workers of the Federation of BiH and Republika Srpska at a conference dedicated to the education of social workers that concluded today in Sarajevo...
Austria’s Haider appointed OSCE PA Special Representative on Central Asia
Publishing date: 11 October 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Democratization, Good governance
COPENHAGEN, 11 October 2018 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President George Tsereteli (MP, Georgia) has appointed Austrian parliamentarian Roman Haider to serve as the Assembly’s Special Representative on Central Asia...
Spot report by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM): Bullets fly 10-50m over SMM patrol near Donetsk Filtration Station
Publishing date: 10 October 2018
Content type: Spot report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
At 8:59 on 10 October, an SMM patrol consisting of five members and two armoured vehicles was positioned on road H-20 approximately 1.5km south of Kamianka (government controlled, 20km north of Donetsk), and 3km north of the Donetsk Filtration Station.
Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30, 9 October 2018
Publishing date: 10 October 2018
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region but fewer ceasefire violations in Luhansk region, compared with the previous reporting period. The Mission followed up on reports of casualties in Maiorove and Zolote-5/Mykhailivka. The SMM observed damage as a result of shelling in Zolote-5/Mykhailivka. It continued monitoring all three disengagement areas, where its access remained restricted. The SMM’s access was also again restricted near Yuzhna-Lomuvatka and Verkhnoshyrokivske.* The SMM saw weapons in violation of the agreed withdrawal lines near Ocheretyne, Smolianynove and Metolkine. The Mission observed newly laid mines on both sides of the contact line. It continued to facilitate the operation of the Donetsk Filtration Station. The SMM also facilitated and monitored adherence to the ceasefire to enable repairs to the phenol sludge reservoir near Zalizne and to the Petrivske pumping station near Artema.
ODIHR, OSCE Presence and Albania’s Interior Ministry train police and civil society to enhance responses to gender-based violence
Publishing date: 10 October 2018
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
Enhancing responses to sexual and gender-based violence in Albania was the focus of a capacity building event that brought together police officers and civil society representatives in Tirana on 8 and 9 October 2018. The event was organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human
Role of legal professionals in ensuring access to justice for national minorities focus of regional roundtable discussion held in Chisinau
Publishing date: 10 October 2018
Content type: News
The role of legal professionals in ensuring the adequate protection of national minorities’ rights, by way of fair and effective investigation and adjudication, especially in cases related to hate crime, was the focus of...
On International Day against Death Penalty, OSCE/ODIHR Director raises concern over suggestions in some states to reintroduce capital punishment in certain instances
Publishing date: 10 October 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
WARSAW, 10 October 2018 – While underlining that most OSCE participating States had fully abolished capital punishment, Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), expressed concern over suggestions in some countries that the death penalty be re-introduced in certain instances.