News and press releases

The second annual Media Fellowship, an initiative of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo to build the capacities of young journalists and establish a network of fellows from communities living in Kosovo, was launched on 17 April 2018...

Strengthening the capacity of law enforcement personnel working with Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities to ensure the protection and promotion of human rights in the course of policing was the focus of a training course organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), from 17 to 19 April 2018 in Prishtinë/Priština.

A team of experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) was in Prishtinë/Priština from 16 to 19 April for a consultation and planning visit as part of the ODIHR project  Support to Elections in the Western Balkans. In-depth consultations were held with key

SEOUL, 19 April 2018- More than 150 experts from across the OSCE area and the Asian region gathered in Seoul today for an inter-regional conference on preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism, organized by the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Korea in close co-operation with the OSCE Transnational Threats Department...

A workshop on how to establish an Advance Passenger Information (API) system in Georgia, aimed at detecting and preventing the movement of foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs), was organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department’s Border Security and Management Unit (TNTD/BSMU) in Tbilisi from 17 to 19 April. The event brought together 45 representatives from all national agencies involved in passenger processing, including police and customs officials, the State Security Service, the Office of the Personal Data Protection Inspector, and the civil aviation authority...

A high-level meeting on the results of the OSCE assistance projects on small arms and light weapons (SALW) and conventional ammunition (CA) in Tajikistan and prospects for future co-operation with the national authorities was held on 18 April 2018 in Dushanbe...

The SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and Luhansk region compared with the previous reporting period. The SMM followed up on reports of Voda Donbassa employees injured by gunfire near the Donetsk Filtration Station (DFS). It followed up on reports of shelling at an airfield in Luhansk city. The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske; it recorded ceasefire violations inside the Zolote and the Petrivske disengagement areas. Its access remained restricted in all three disengagement areas and elsewhere.*