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Moscow Mechanism experts present report on Ukraine to OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 25 September 2025
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
The OSCE Moscow Mechanism mission of experts undertaken by Professor Hervé Ascensio, Professor Veronika Bílková and Professor Mark Klamberg presented their findings to the OSCE Permanent Council on 25 September 2025, collected in the report entitled ‘Report on Possible Violations and Abuses of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, Related to the Treatment of Ukrainian POWs by the Russian Federation’.
OSCE conducts specialized training in Ukraine on practical applications of open data for the business and financial sectors
Publishing date: 12 September 2025
Content type: News
What we do: Economic activities
Open data offers timely insights into markets, competitors, and consumers, serving as a key enabler of evidence-based decision-making, financial innovation, and sustainable growth. To promote its use across Ukraine’s business and financial sectors, the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic
Statement by the OSCE Troika to condemn Russia’s repeated attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure across Ukraine
Publishing date: 29 August 2025
Content type: Press statement
Where we are: OSCE Chairpersonship, Troika
HELSINKI/VALLETTA/BERN, 29 August 2025- Today, the OSCE Troika – Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE and Foreign Minister of Finland Elina Valtonen, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Tourism of Malta Ian Borg, and Federal Councillor and Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland Ignazio Cassis – made the following statement:
Ukraine appoints three experts following invocation of the OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism
Publishing date: 18 August 2025
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Rule of law
On 24 July 2025 and following consultation with Ukraine, 41 OSCE participating States invoked the Moscow Mechanism “on violations and abuses of human rights and violations of IHL, including possible cases of war crimes and crimes against humanity, related to the treatment of Ukrainian POWs by the
Evidence of human rights violations in Ukraine increases amid escalating attacks by Russian armed forces, OSCE human rights office says
Publishing date: 15 July 2025
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
WARSAW, 15 July 2025 – Intensified attacks on Ukrainian cities by the Russian Federation continue to result in a sharp increase in civilian casualties, while the systematic torture of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war persists and a growing number of Ukrainians are being prosecuted by Russian authorities on fabricated charges, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) said today in a new report.
OSCE launches regional project to strengthen transboundary water co-operation in the Dniester River Basin
Publishing date: 15 July 2025
Content type: News
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
The OSCE organised a two-day inception workshop between 14 and 15 July in Chisinau, Moldova to officially launch the regional project “Advancing Transboundary Co-operation and Integrated Water Resources Management in the Dniester River Basin through Implementation of the Strategic Action Programme
Statement by the OSCE Troika to condemn Russia’s intensified attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure across Ukraine
Publishing date: 18 June 2025
Content type: Press statement
Where we are: OSCE Chairpersonship, Troika
HELSINKI/VALLETTA/BERN, 18 June 2025- Today, the OSCE Troika – Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE and Foreign Minister of Finland Elina Valtonen, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Tourism of Malta Ian Borg, and Federal Councillor and Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland Ignazio Cassis – made the following statement: