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OSCE Mission to Montenegro launches awareness-raising campaign against hate speech
Publishing date: 20 December 2021
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro launched an awareness-raising campaign against hate speech on 20 December. The campaign highlights the importance of advocacy efforts to stop hate speech online.
OSCE SMM Spot Report 44/2021: Armed formations twice denied the SMM’s passage near Zolote and Molodizhne, Luhansk region
Publishing date: 19 December 2021
Content type: Spot report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
On the morning of 19 December, the armed formations in Luhansk region twice denied the Mission passage to government-controlled areas...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 297/2021 issued on 18 December 2021
Publishing date: 18 December 2021
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Summary In Donetsk region, the SMM recorded 101 ceasefire violations, including 67 explosions. Of these 101, 67 were assessed as live-fire training exercises. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 62 ceasefire violations in the region. In Luhansk region, the Mission recorded 169 ceasefire
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 296/2021 issued on 17 December 2021
Publishing date: 17 December 2021
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Summary In Donetsk region, the SMM recorded 62 ceasefire violations, including 22 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 257 ceasefire violations in the region. In Luhansk region, the Mission recorded 170 ceasefire violations, including 120 explosions. In the previous reporting
OSCE organizes roundtable on municipal governance in Ukraine
Publishing date: 17 December 2021
Content type: News
Where we are: Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Good governance
Data driven decision-making in municipal governance and key indicators for sustainable urban development in Ukraine were among the main topics of a two-day expert roundtable discussion organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA) in co-operation with the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine in Kyiv on 16 and 17 December 2021.
OSCE Mission to Serbia announces winner of its 2021 Persons of the Year Award, honours recipients of 2020 Persons of the Year Award
Publishing date: 17 December 2021
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
BELGRADE, 17 December 2021- At a ceremony held today in Belgrade, the OSCE Mission to Serbia presented its 2021 Persons of the Year Award to: Vladimira Dorčova-Valtnerova, Founder and Editor in Chief of Storyteller.rs, from Maglić, and the Voluntary Firefighting Association of Požega. As the recognition of the 2020 Person of the Year Award was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on this occasion the OSCE Mission honoured last year’s recipients: Ivanka Jovanović, Executive Director of the National Organisation of Persons with Disabilities of Serbia (NOOIS), and Biljana Stepanov, Director of the Centre for Support of Women from Kikinda.
OSCE SMM Spot Report 43/2021: Armed formations twice denied the SMM’s passage near Zolote and Molodizhne, Luhansk region
Publishing date: 17 December 2021
Content type: Spot report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
On the morning of 17 December, the armed formations in Luhansk region twice denied the Mission passage to non-government-controlled areas. The SMM patrols were travelling from government-controlled areas...