News and press releases

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized a training course for senior representatives from the State Election Commission and Municipal Election Commissions on how to train polling station staff on polling station procedures on 21 and 22 November 2019 in Podgorica...

The annual OSCE-supported International Youth Legal Forum, focusing on the link between human rights and transnational threats to security, concluded on 22 November 2019 in Nur-Sultan...

The creation of a mechanism for consultations with the representatives of the national minorities was the focus of an OSCE-organized study visit, from 18 to 21 November 2019, to Lithuania for representatives of the Ombudsperson’s office, the Ministry of Education, the Institute of State, Law and Democracy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan...

The office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities organized a Regional School on Multilingual and Multicultural Education in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, from 18 to 22 November 2019, bringing together around 90 participants from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and Tajikistan to share experiences

An OSCE-supported seminar on the presentation of manuals on how to work in the rehabilitation of returning foreign terrorist fighters and their families took place on 22 November 2019 in Nur-Sultan...

VIENNA, 21 November 2019 – Not only the physical safety but also the legal safety of journalists needs to be protected, said OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir as he presented his biannual report to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna today...

Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and no ceasefire violations in Luhansk region. The construction work at Stanytsia Luhanska Bridge was finalized; civilians started walking over the new section of the bridge while