News and press releases

On 12 March, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM), Teresa Ribeiro, met with Janusz Urbańczyk, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the OSCE, to discuss current challenges and threats to media freedom in the OSCE region.

Summary In Donetsk region, between the evenings of 12 and 14 March, the SMM recorded 143 ceasefire violations. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 79 ceasefire violations in the region. In Luhansk region, between the evenings of 12 and 14 March, the Mission recorded 31 ceasefire

On the morning of 15 March, an SMM patrol consisting of two vehicles and four mission members arrived at the checkpoint of the armed formations near Olenivka (non-government-controlled, 23km south-west of Donetsk) to cross to government-controlled areas. At 11:23, while at the checkpoint, a member of the armed formations approached the patrol and asked the SMM to open the doors and trunks of both its vehicles, as well as its trailer, for a visual inspection. The patrol refused the request. At 12:22, another member of the armed formations approached the patrol and requested the same, which the Mission again refused...

The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe (the Office) organized a two-day roundtable discussion on the role of women in law enforcement agencies with a focus on empowering women in the police sector. The event, co-organized with Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry and the Japan International Co-operation Agency, took place on the outskirts of Dushanbe on 12 and 13 March.

On 12 March, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM), Teresa Ribeiro, met with Ambassador Frédéric Labarrère to discuss media freedom in the Principality of Monaco and in the broader OSCE region...

Summary In Donetsk region, the SMM recorded 79 ceasefire violations. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 13 ceasefire violations in the region. In Luhansk region, the Mission recorded 202 ceasefire violations. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 14 ceasefire violations in the

The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe completed a four-week training course on Sustained Field Operation Capacity for representatives of Tajikistan’s Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defence (Committee) in Bokhtar city of the Khatlon region on 12 March 2021...