News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Latest from the Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine- based on information received until 18:00 hrs, 12 May (Kyiv time)
Publishing date: 13 May 2014
The situation in Ukraine remained calm with the exception of Donetsk where the situation remained tense...
OSCE, Council of Europe meet in Tirana to co-ordinate regional work on local government
Publishing date: 13 May 2014
Representatives from the OSCE and the Council of Europe met on 12 and 13 May 2014 in Tirana to co-ordinate their work on local government issues in southeastern Europe...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports coastal clean-up campaign
Publishing date: 13 May 2014
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro supported the country’s biggest voluntary clean-up of illegal dumpsites during a special campaign held on 10 May 2014...
Swiss Chairperson-in-Office receives positive responses to OSCE Roadmap, says implementation is well underway
Publishing date: 12 May 2014
BERN, 12 May 2014- The OSCE Roadmap, drafted in a sense of urgency last week as the situation in Ukraine had deteriorated further, and distributed simultaneously to the four parties of the Geneva Joint Statement of April 17, is an offer to help implementing de-escalation measures in a concrete, structured and effective manner, Burkhalter said...
Latest from the Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine- based on information received from 18:00, 9 May until 18:00, 11 May (Kyiv time)
Publishing date: 12 May 2014
The situation in Ukraine remained calm with the exceptions of Donetsk and Luhansk where the situation remained tense. Members of the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) were stopped at an illegal checkpoint in the vicinity of Luhansk and released 3 hours later...
Children’s rights must be upheld, OSCE anti-trafficking Co-ordinator says
Publishing date: 12 May 2014
Police, immigration authorities and other actors should ensure that child trafficking victims are not arrested or detained, but provided with access to justice, the OSCE acting Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Ruth Freedom Pojman, told a forum on missing children and child trafficking in Thessaloniki, Greece on 8 and 9 May 2014...
OSCE PA’s Kulkuloglu calls for strengthened co-operation among parliamentary bodies
Publishing date: 12 May 2014
COPENHAGEN, 12 May 2014 – Deepened co-operation and permanent channels of communication between parliamentary bodies are needed to meet today’s challenges, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Mehmet Sevki Kulkuloglu told a gathering of international human rights experts in Warsaw today.