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OSCE Special Monitoring Mission’s Principal Deputy Chief Monitor to brief media on Friday via videolink from eastern Ukraine

Publishing date: 29 March 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
KYIV, 29 March 2018 – Alexander Hug, the Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), will hold a news briefing on Friday via video link from eastern Ukraine.

Spot Report by OSCE Observer Mission: The seventy-third Russian convoy of 16 vehicles crossed into Ukraine and returned through the Donetsk Border Crossing Point

Publishing date: 29 March 2018
Content type: Spot report
Where we are: OSCE Observer Mission at the Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk (discontinued)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
On 29 March 2018 at 06:50 (Moscow time), the seventy-third Russian convoy arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). A total of 16 vehicles were checked by the Russian border guards and customs services prior to their crossing into Ukraine. All 16 vehicles had crossed back into the Russian Federation by 14:26 on 29 March.

Victim identification, assistance and protection in focus during visit of OSCE Special Representative for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings to Uzbekistan

Publishing date: 29 March 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
TASHKENT, 29 March 2018 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Madina Jarbussynova, today concluded a four-day high-level visit to Uzbekistan. The aim of the trip was to discuss the country’s progress in implementing OSCE anti-trafficking commitments since the OSCE Special Representative’s previous visit in November 2013.

OSCE media freedom representative Désir calls for release of Özgürlükçü Demokrasi staff, following police raid on newspaper’s offices in Turkey

Publishing date: 29 March 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 29 March 2018 – The closure of the Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper and appointing a trustee to head it is a major attack on the independence of this media outlet and another setback to media pluralism in Turkey, said Harlem Désir, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today following yesterday’s police raid on the newspaper’s office...

OSCE co-organizes cross-border training seminar on risk profiling in Kazakhstan

Publishing date: 29 March 2018
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Border management
An OSCE-supported five-day cross-border training seminar on risk profiling at border checkpoints, which began in Karasu, Kazakhstan on 26 March 2018, is nearing conclusion.

OSCE supports roundtable discussion on revising Kazakhstan’s Environmental Code

Publishing date: 29 March 2018
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
Some 45 representatives from Kazakhstan’s Energy Ministry, international organizations and civil society sector gathered for an OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on revising the country’s Environmental Code on 29 March 2018 in Astana...

OSCE trains community police officers in Kazakhstan on combating domestic violence

Publishing date: 29 March 2018
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Gender equality, Policing
A two-day seminar organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana on the legal acts and mechanisms regulating the police’s work in combating domestic violence concluded on 29 March 2018 in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan...