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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media meets with Portuguese Ambassador
Publishing date: 18 January 2021
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM), Teresa Ribeiro, met today, 18 January 2021, with Ambassador Jorge Lobo de Mesquita to discuss the situation of media freedom in Portugal.
OSCE PA human rights leaders decry detention of Alexey Navalny
Publishing date: 18 January 2021
COPENHAGEN, 18 January 2021 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s human rights leaders today decried the detention of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny. In response to his arrest Sunday at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, the officers of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s General Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Chair Kyriakos Hadjiyianni (MP, Cyprus), Vice-Chair Michael Georg Link (MP, Germany), and Rapporteur Kari Henriksen (MP, Norway) issued the following joint statement:
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 11/2021 issued on 16 January 2021
Publishing date: 16 January 2021
Summary The SMM recorded 184 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 49 ceasefire violations in the region. The Mission recorded no ceasefire violations in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it also recorded no ceasefire violations in the
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 10/2021 issued on 15 January 2021
Publishing date: 15 January 2021
Summary The SMM recorded 49 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 47 ceasefire violations in the region. The Mission recorded no ceasefire violations in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 11 ceasefire violations in the
OSCE train-the-trainer regional seminar to build capacities of women civil society leaders in Central Asia to prevent violent extremism
Publishing date: 15 January 2021
A regional train-the-trainers seminar is guiding twenty future facilitators (18 women, 2 men) in learning how to train women leaders in civil society to prevent violent extremism. The Action against Terrorism Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department organized the seminar in co-operation with OSCE field operations in Central Asia...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Linde appoints Special Representatives
Publishing date: 15 January 2021
VIENNA, 15 January 2021- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden Ann Linde, announced today the appointments of her Special Representatives for 2021...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 9/2021 issued on 14 January 2021
Publishing date: 14 January 2021
Summary The SMM recorded 47 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 76 ceasefire violations in the region. The Mission recorded 11 ceasefire violations in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded no ceasefire violations in the