News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30, 28 September 2016
Publishing date: 29 September 2016
In Donetsk region the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations, including 144 explosions, more than half of them recorded in the Avdiivka-Yasynuvata area, compared with 187 explosions in the previous reporting period. In Luhansk region the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations, including six explosions, compared with one single violation in the previous reporting period. The Mission continued to monitor the disengagement process near Stanytsia Luhanska, Petrivske, and Zolote, and it noted a relatively calm situation. The Mission was restricted nine times in its freedom of movement, including on both sides of the Shchastia bridge and in the disengagement areas near Petrivske-Bohdanivka and Zolote-Pervomaisk. It was also blocked by a crowd at a “DPR” checkpoint near Horlivka. The Mission continued to facilitate and monitor repair works in Luhansk region. The SMM monitored one border area not controlled by the Government. In Odessa the SMM continued to monitor the security situation surrounding the protest against the mayor and followed up on an alleged arson attack on one of the protestors’ tents...
OSCE field operations promote women's empowerment at the OSCE/ODIHR Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
Publishing date: 29 September 2016
Equal economic opportunities, women’s active engagement in political and public life and combating domestic violence were the focus of a discussion held by OSCE field operations in Armenia, Moldova and Tajikistan on 28 September 2016 in Warsaw, Poland, at a side event to the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting...
Co-operation between criminal investigation departments and uniformed police in focus of OSCE Mission to Skopje-organized event
Publishing date: 29 September 2016
A two-day seminar aimed at fostering internal co-operation and co-ordination between the uniformed police and criminal investigation departments, organized by the OSCE Mission to Skopje, in co-operation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, began on 29 September 2016 in Skopje...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes UN Human Rights Council’s resolution on journalists’ safety
Publishing date: 29 September 2016
VIENNA, 29 September 2016 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović welcomed the UN Human Rights Council’s passing today of a resolution on the safety of journalists...
OSCE Representative urges authorities to intensify efforts to solve murder of journalist Martin O’Hagan in Northern Ireland
Publishing date: 29 September 2016
VIENNA, 29 September 2016 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today urged the authorities in the United Kingdom to intensify their efforts to find the killers of investigative journalist Martin O’Hagan, who was shot and killed in September 2001...
Statement by OSCE Head of Mission Jonathan Moore in advance of local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 29 September 2016
SARAJEVO, 29 September 2016- On behalf of all of us at the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, I encourage the country's eligible citizens to exercise their democratic right and duty, and vote in local elections on 2 October...
OSCE Mission to Moldova organizes roundtable event to foster academic debate in schools
Publishing date: 29 September 2016
The OSCE Mission to Moldova held a roundtable event on 28 September 2016 to raise awareness of the benefits of academic debate among high school students and teachers. Some 30 students and teachers from across Moldova attended the discussion at the Gaidarji lyceum in Comrat, in the country’s autonomous region of Gagauzia...