News and press releases

Enhancing water diplomacy as a way of improving transboundary water co-operation is the focus of a workshop that is taking place on 12 and 13 November 2019 in Strasbourg, France.

In response to a request from the Media Trade Union, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized a workshop for local public broadcasters on social media outreach on 11 and 12 November 2019 in Podgorica...

More than 50 representatives of religious communities, local authorities and civil society organizations from across Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) gathered to discuss freedom of religion or belief at a conference on 12 November 2019 in Sarajevo, organized by the OSCE Mission to BiH.

A training seminar for international observers aimed to enhance participants’ knowledge of the rights and obligations of election observers concluded in Nur-Sultan on 12 November 2019. The seminar was based on using key OSCE/ODIHR tools related to election observation...

An OSCE-supported seminar on the protection of freedom of expression and judicial regulation of hate speech took place on 12 November 2019 in Nur-Sultan. The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan co-organized the event with the NGO Legal Media Centre and the Academy of Justice under the Supreme Court.

Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM) continues to operate 24/7 at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). The overall number of border crossings by persons decreased at both BCPs compared to the previous week...

Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, between the evenings of 8 and 9 November, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Between the evenings of 9 and 10 November, the Mission recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and more in