Section: OSCE (EU)
OSCE promotes international exchange of best practices for preventing torture in detention facilities
LVIV, 13 November 2014 – The Fifth East European Conference on National Preventive Mechanisms, co-hosted by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, the country’s Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights and the Kharkiv Institute for Social Researches, started in Lviv today. The two-day will discuss the challenges and practical...
Weekly update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 10:00 (Moscow time), 12 November 2014
SUMMARY KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russian Federation, 12 November 2014 – As mandated, the Observer Mission (OM) is operating 24/7 at both BCPs. Overall cross-border traffic flows increased at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). For the first time since late August, more people entered than left the Russian Federation (RF) at the two observed...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 11 November 2014
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM continued to monitor the situation in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, focusing on the implementation of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum. The SMM went to the international border crossing points, Izvaryne and Gukovo, between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. The SMM met with a...
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva to address the OSCE Permanent Council on Thursday
VIENNA, 12 November 2014 – The President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) will address the OSCE Permanent Council on Thursday, 13 November, 2014, at the Hofburg, Vienna. President Kanerva will discuss the challenges presented by the Ukraine crisis, the need for Organizational reform, and the importance of...
OSCE Centre co-organizes meeting on Aarhus Convention’s implementation
Astana, Kazakhstan, 12 November 2014 – Over 100 representatives of the Parliament, Supreme Court, government, civil society and major enterprises exploring natural resources, discussed at the Public Council today in Astana the issue of the Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR). The meeting was co-organized by the OSCE Centre...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 10 November 2014
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM continued to monitor the situation in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, focusing on the implementation of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum. In Kharkiv the SMM followed up on reports of an explosion at a pub in the city centre. In Kharkiv the SMM followed up on an incident at the “Stena Rock...
Spot report by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), 11 November 2014
This report is for media and the general public. Summary The SMM observed an unmarked military convoy in the eastern outskirts of Donetsk city on 11 November 2014. Detail At 07:45hrs, on 11 November, three kilometres east of Donetsk city centre, the SMM observed a convoy of 43 unmarked green military trucks, with tarpaulin covers, moving in the...
Public service broadcasting’s vital role for advancing media freedom discussed at OSCE South Caucasus Media Conference in Tbilisi
TBILISI, 11 November 2014 – Public service broadcasting (PSB) is a vital element of democracy, and an important source of unbiased information and diverse political opinions, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, said in her closing remarks at 11th annual South Caucasus Media Conference in Tbilisi today. “Public...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 9 November 2014
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM continued to monitor the situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, with a focus on the implementation of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum. The situation in Donetsk remained tense. Two of SMM members were held for 2.5 hours at a Ukrainian checkpoint. On 7 November the SMM observed...
Increased repression of free media in Azerbaijan must stop, OSCE Representative says
TBILISI, 10 November 2014 – Following the detention of Azerbaijani blogger Mehman Huseynov, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said that the ongoing and increasing number of repressive actions against independent media and advocates of freedom of expression in Azerbaijan must stop. “Practically all independent media...
