News and press releases

BISHKEK, 17 December 2015 – The first Kyrgyz State Border Service Press Centre, supported by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, opened today in the country’s capital, with the aim of enhancing internal and external communication between the Service’s border units, and in establishing the Service’s coherent and transparent approach towards the media and public...

The OSCE Mission to Serbia and the Centre for Women Support, civil society organization (CSO) from Kikinda, held on 17 December 2015 in Šabac, north-western Serbia, a conference on the status of minority women in their communities, with specific reference to decision-making opportunities within the National Minority Councils (NMCs)...

DUSHANBE, 17 December 2015 – The OSCE Office in Tajikistan, with the support of the Swiss Co-operation Office, today concluded a three-day training course on the human rights of persons in police custody and the independent monitoring of police detention facilities...

TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan, 17 December 2015 – Enhancing land and maritime border management security capabilities of future border guards was the aim of a series of training lectures organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat for 130 cadets at the Navy Institute of Turkmenistan’s Defence Ministry, which conclude tomorrow in Turkmenbashi...

COPENHAGEN, 17 December 2015 – The Chairperson of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions Committee, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), today expressed concern about new legislation in Russia that allows the country’s Constitutional Court to decide on whether to implement rulings of international human rights courts, including the European Court of Human Rights...

The SMM recorded a low number of ceasefire violations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. It experienced freedom-of-movement restrictions in areas not controlled by the Government. The SMM spoke to medical personnel in Horlivka City Hospital No. 2, where it heard that medication for dialysis patients will run out by 1 January 2016...

ERGNETI, 16 December 2015- The 61st meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) took place in Ergneti, co-facilitated by Kęstutis Jankauskas, the Head of the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM), and Ambassador Angelo Gnaedinger, the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus...