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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 45/2020 issued on 24 February 2020
Publishing date: 24 February 2020
Summary Between the evenings of 21 and 22 February, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and more in Luhansk region, compared with the previous reporting period. Between the evenings of 22 and 23 February, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and
OSCE Media Freedom Representative Désir dismayed by threats against journalists of web portal Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 24 February 2020
VIENNA, 24 February 2020 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, expressed his dismay today at recent insults and threats by Duško Perović, Head of the Representative Office of the Republika Srpska in the Russian Federation, against journalists of the web portal Capital...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities supports multilingual education pilot programme in four regions of Ukraine
Publishing date: 24 February 2020
The office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM), in co-operation with the Education Ministry of Ukraine, organized a conference on 20 February 2020 in Kyiv for 60 stakeholders from the four regions of Zakarpattia, Chernivtsi, Odesa and Zaporizhzhia. The conference was in
OSCE Media Freedom Representative calls on UK authorities not to extradite WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange to the US, ahead of Monday’s hearing
Publishing date: 23 February 2020
VIENNA, 23 February 2020 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, expressed his concern today at the potential extradition of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange, ahead of his hearing on 24 February.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 44/2020 issued on 22 February 2020
Publishing date: 22 February 2020
Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The Mission followed up on reports of a man injured by shrapnel from shelling in non-government-controlled Holubivske on 18 February. The SMM saw fresh craters in
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 43/2020 issued on 21 February 2020
Publishing date: 21 February 2020
Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The Mission saw fresh damage from shelling to residential buildings and a power substation in non-government-controlled Zolote-5/Mykhailivka and Holubivske. The SMM
At OSCE PA Winter Meeting, parliamentarians tackle anti-Semitism, intolerance, protracted conflicts, climate change and human rights
Publishing date: 21 February 2020
VIENNA, 21 February 2020 – In the wake of a racially motivated attack in the German town of Hanau on Wednesday, OSCE parliamentarians gathering in Vienna for the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 19th Winter Meeting today held a timely debate on combating anti-Semitism, discrimination and intolerance in the OSCE region...