News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 223/2020 issued on 18 September 2020
Publishing date: 18 September 2020
Summary The SMM recorded two ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and none in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 14 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and one in Luhansk region. The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote
OSCE supports training webinar on countering financial pyramids and increasing financial literacy of population
Publishing date: 18 September 2020
An OSCE-supported one-day training webinar on fighting financial pyramids and practical aspects of improving the financial literacy of the general population concluded on 18 September 2020...
OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism invoked to examine alleged human rights violations in Belarus
Publishing date: 18 September 2020
Seventeen OSCE participating States invoked the OSCE’s so-called Moscow Mechanism on 17 September 2020. Seventeen OSCE participating States invoked the OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism on 17 September 2020 to examine alleged human rights violations in Belarus. The Moscow Mechanism, last invoked in 2018 in
Infodemic toolkit to fight disinformation on COVID-19 launched by OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 18 September 2020
TASHKENT, 18 September 2020- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (PCUz) launches an infodemic toolkit (https://infodemictoolkit.org/en/) for media professionals to counter myths and fake information related to COVID-19. It is available in Uzbek, Russian and English.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 222/2020 issued on 17 September 2020
Publishing date: 17 September 2020
Summary The SMM recorded 14 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and one in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded no ceasefire violations in either Donetsk or Luhansk region. The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and
Press Statement of Special Representative Grau after the regular Meeting of Trilateral Contact Group on 16 September 2020
Publishing date: 17 September 2020
KYIV, 17 September 2020 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Heidi Grau, made the following statement to the press after the regular meetings of the TCG and its Working Groups held through video conferencing...
Parliamentary input, greater urgency from governments needed to address climate crisis, say OSCE parliamentarians at webinar
Publishing date: 17 September 2020
COPENHAGEN, 16 September 2020 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s webinar today, entitled “From the Arctic to Global: The Political Role in addressing Climate Change,” featured the participation of some 50 parliamentarians and experts for a discussion on the effects of climate change in the Arctic and beyond. The PA’s Special Representative on Arctic Issues, Norwegian parliamentarian Torill Eidsheim, opened the event, followed by keynote addresses by the Arctic Council’s Adalheidur Thorsteinsdottir, the UN’s Daniele Violetti, and Prof. Tore Furevik, Director of the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research...