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OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine supports survey on anti-corruption reform in Ukraine
Publishing date: 14 March 2018
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Good governance
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine jointly with the project Support to Anti-Corruption Champion Institutions (SACCI) funded by USAID, conducted dialogue focus groups on anti-corruption reform in 10 regions across Ukraine in 2017. The results of these dialogues were assembled in publication of survey on perceptions of the success of the anti-corruption reform presented at an event held on 13 March 2018 in Kyiv.
Slovakia concludes its Chairmanship of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation
Publishing date: 14 March 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation
VIENNA, 14 March 2018 – Concluding Slovakia’s Chairmanship of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC) in Vienna today, the country’s Permanent Representative to the OSCE and Chairperson of the Forum Ambassador Radomír Boháč said Slovakia strived to be an impartial facilitator of the discussions amid growing polarization and diverging views among participating States...
OSCE presents wining theatrical performances on countering violent ex-tremism in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 14 March 2018
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Countering terrorism
Four student teams from Universities of Sarajevo, Banja Luka, and the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology were on stage on 13 March 2018 in Sarajevo to perform the winning plays of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)’s drama contest on countering violent extremism...
OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe holds roundtable discussion on the role of men to support the advancement of women
Publishing date: 14 March 2018
A one-day roundtable discussion on how to support women’s increased participation in decision making in Tajikistan and how men can play a role in that concluded in Dushanbe on 6 March 2018. The event was organized on the eve of International Women’s Day.
OSCE, UNFPA, UNICEF side event underscores need to advance research for effective policies to tackle violence against women and girls
Publishing date: 13 March 2018
NEW YORK, 13 March 2018 – The robust collection of data documenting violence against women and girls and the adoption of policies using the findings can help countries successfully tackle this global scourge, said speakers during a side event held today at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30, 12 March 2018
Publishing date: 13 March 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 and fewer in Luhansk region compared with the previous 24 hours. The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske and observed a ceasefire violation near the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area. Its access remained restricted in all three areas and elsewhere, including again in Kozatske, at the Chervona Mohyla railway station and a border crossing point near Voznesenivka in Luhansk region – near the border with the Russian Federation – and to a compound in Kremenivka. The SMM observed weapons in violation near Lobacheve. The Mission observed anti-tank mines in Verkhnotoretske and Betmanove. The SMM continued to facilitate and monitor repairs to the Petrivske water pumping station in Artema. In Kyiv, the Mission followed up on reports of a fire at a chapel of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church...
OSCE PA President Tsereteli stresses parliamentarians’ role in economic co-operation at Baku international conference
Publishing date: 13 March 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Economic activities
BAKU, 13 March 2018 – The OSCE’s economic and environmental activities are among its greatest successes, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly George Tsereteli (Georgia) said today at an international conference in Baku. Parliamentarians have a key role to play in favoring economic opportunities and increased trade to support security across the OSCE area, he said, adding that all OSCE countries are becoming increasingly aware of the link between economic success and individual security...