News and press releases

An OSCE-supported two-day training seminar on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) concluded on 28 August 2018 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Twenty domestic violence care professionals from Transdniestria and Gagauzia learned how to break the cycle of abuse in a co-dependent relationship at an OSCE-supported workshop in the left-bank city of Tiraspol from 23 to 25 August 2018...

SARAJEVO, 28 August 2018 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today formally opened an election observation mission for the 7 October general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The mission’s deployment follows an official invitation from the country’s authorities.

An OSCE-supported training seminar on improving efficiency and combating corruption in public procurement concluded on 28 August in Astana.

The SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and fewer in Luhansk region between the evenings of 24 and 25 August, compared with the previous reporting period. Between the evenings of 25 and 26 August, the Mission recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and more ceasefire violations in Luhansk region, compared with the previous 24 hours. The SMM followed up on a civilian casualty in Vrubivka. The Mission saw fresh damage caused by shelling to civilian properties in residential areas of Vrubivka and Staromykhailivka. The Mission recorded ceasefire violations inside the Stanytsia Luhanska and Petrivske disengagement areas. The SMM’s access remained restricted in all three disengagement areas, as well as in Marinka, Zaichenko, Yasne and close to Novoazovsk, Izvaryne and Voznesenivka near the border with the Russian Federation.* The SMM observed that the entry-exit checkpoint in Maiorsk remained closed. The Mission continued to facilitate the operation of the Donetsk Filtration Station. It facilitated and monitored adherence to the ceasefire to enable repairs to water infrastructure near Pervomaisk and Zolote, repairs to residential houses in Avdiivka, as well as demining in Berezove.

The OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek staff members have undergone a rigorous gender training course conducted by the Kyrgyzstani non-governmental organization Women Support Center, from 19 to 24 August 2018 in Bishkek...

SKOPJE, 27 August 2018 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today formally opened a referendum observation mission (ROM) for the 30 September referendum in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The mission’s deployment follows an invitation from the country’s authorities.