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Swiss OSCE Chairperson-in-Office acknowledges humanitarian efforts in Ukraine, calls for co-operative measures
Publishing date: 9 August 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BERN, 8 August 2014- OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Swiss Foreign Minister, Didier Burkhalter, welcomed today’s announcement by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) that it would step up activities for the affected population in deteriorating humanitarian and security environments and deploy additional teams...
OSCE parliamentary observers arrive in Turkey ahead of presidential election
Publishing date: 8 August 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
ANKARA, 8 August 2014 – Senior OSCE parliamentarians have arrived in Ankara to lead the OSCE’s short-term observation mission for Turkey’s presidential election this weekend...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received by 18:00 (Kyiv time), 7 August 2014
Publishing date: 8 August 2014
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Internally displaced persons from Luhansk continued to inform the SMM about troubling humanitarian conditions in the city. The SMM visited a Ukrainian Border Guard encampment, one kilometre from the Russian border, and saw evidence that it had been shelled. The SMM saw evidence consistent with an artillery attack in two high-rise blocks and a local hospital in Donetsk city. It also observed an unsuccessful attempt to remove the tent town in Kyiv’s Maidan square...
OSCE representative deplores intensifying harassment of media freedom activists and organizations in Azerbaijan, calls on authorities to stop persecution of free voices
Publishing date: 8 August 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 8 August 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović deplored today the intensifying harassment of media freedom activists and organizations, most recently the Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS) and its Chair Emin Huseynov...
Intimidation of Turkish journalist by political leadership threatens media freedom and journalists' safety, says OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 8 August 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 8 August 2014 – Dunja Mijatović, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media expressed concern today over the targeting of prominent Turkish journalist Amberin Zaman by the highest authorities in Turkey...
OSCE supports seminar for law enforcement officers in Kazakhstan on investigating human trafficking cases
Publishing date: 8 August 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
A two-day training seminar for law enforcement officers on investigative techniques and methods to counter trafficking in human beings is taking place in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 8 and 9 August 2014...
OSCE Youth Model Parliament programme promotes democratic principles among school pupils in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 8 August 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Democratization, Youth
BISHKEK, 8 August 2014- Forty-four secondary school children will hold a session of the OSCE Youth Model Parliament in the hall of the Kyrgyz Parliament. The Youth Model Parliament programme is managed by the American Councils for International Education (ACTR/ACCELS) with the support of OSCE Centre in Bishkek...