News and press releases

The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) supports the Press Council’s “STOP! Hate Speech” campaign launched on 16 October 2020. The aim of this campaign is to identify and respond to hate speech in online commentary during the 2020 local election campaign...

Summary Between the evenings of 16 and 18 October, the SMM recorded 22 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded nine ceasefire violations in the region. Between the evenings of 16 and 18 October, the Mission recorded no ceasefire violations in Luhansk

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (PCUz), in co-operation with the Public Foundation for Support and Development of National Mass Media, is organizing a training course from 19 to 22 October 2020 to enhance the skills of media trainers and other media representatives in Uzbekistan...

Summary The SMM recorded nine ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and one in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 60 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and three in Luhansk region. Three men were injured due to the explosion of a device while fighting a wildfire near

Summary The SMM recorded 60 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and three in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded one ceasefire violation in Donetsk region and none in Luhansk region. The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska,

COPENHAGEN, 16 October 2020 – Leaders of the Parliamentary Assembly took part today in a timely event organized by the OSCE to mark the 30th anniversary of the Charter of Paris for a New Europe, which was adopted at a summit meeting in November 1990. Declaring that “the era of confrontation and division of Europe has ended,” the Charter envisioned “a new era of democracy, peace and unity,” and provided for the institutionalization of the OSCE...

The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe (OSCE POiD) organized a virtual meeting with representatives of Tajikistan’s civil society organizations on 16 October to highlight their recent major achievements and identify priorities for co-operation in 2021. The meeting with Tajik NGOs followed the Partnership Platform meeting between the OSCE POiD and the Government of Tajikistan to outline strategic co-operation for 2021 held online on 15 October.