News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30, 20 September 2017
Publishing date: 21 September 2017
The SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region compared with the previous reporting period and fewer in Luhansk region. The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske and recorded ceasefire violations near the Zolote disengagement area. Its access remained restricted in all three areas and elsewhere, including near Pervomaiske.* The Mission facilitated and monitored repairs and maintenance of essential infrastructure near Shchastia, Zolote, Artema, Krasnyi Lyman and Luhanske.
Improving the work of democratic institutions, including through gender-sensitive laws, in focus at ODIHR Women’s Power Breakfast in Warsaw
Publishing date: 21 September 2017
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) held its annual Women’s Power Breakfast in Warsaw on 21 September 2017, focusing on how to promote and advance women’s political participation and gender equality through the work of democratic institutions. The event, organized
OSCE Mobile Training Team conducts training course on identifying potential foreign terrorist fighters at borders in Tashkent
Publishing date: 21 September 2017
TASHKENT, 21 September 2017 – The OSCE Mobile Training Team for the identification of potential foreign terrorist fighters delivered an interactive training course for 27 border and security officers from Uzbekistan from 19 to 21 September in Tashkent.
OSCE co-organizes workshop on green construction standards in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 21 September 2017
An OSCE-supported workshop on the OSCE best practices in applying green construction standards and technologies to produce environmentally friendly buildings and sustainable cities started on 21 September 2017 in Astana.
OSCE Mission to Serbia supports creation of more efficient administrative judiciary system in Serbia
Publishing date: 21 September 2017
Some 40 high-level judicial officials from ten European countries gathered at an international conference in Belgrade on 21 and 22 September 2017 to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the existing administrative judiciary systems in their respective states.
OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe facilitates training on anti-money laundering and countering financing of terrorism
Publishing date: 21 September 2017
A three-day training course on anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism concluded on 21 September 2017 in the premises of the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe...
Press Statement of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Special Representative Sajdik after the Meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group on 20 September 2017
Publishing date: 21 September 2017
MINSK, 21 September 2017 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Martin Sajdik, made the following statement to the press after the meeting of the TCG and its working groups in Minsk on 20 September 2017.