Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

OSCE Mission to Serbia

L-r: OSCE Mission to Serbia Rule of Law and Human Rights Department Head Ruth van Rhijn, Marko Blagojevic, Director of the NGO Centre for Free Elections and Democracy, and Roar Larsen, Head of Mission's Law Enforcement Department, present the results of the 2011 annual public opinion poll on citizens' attitudes towards the police in Serbia, commissioned by the OSCE Mission to Serbia and the Interior Ministry, Belgrade, 26 January 2012. (OSCE/Milan Obradovic)

Under its mandate, the Mission advises on the implementation of laws and monitors the proper functioning and development of democratic institutions and processes in Serbia. It assists law enforcement bodies and the judiciary in training and restructuring.

Cover of an OSCE manual "Police and Roma and Sinti: Good Practices in Building Trust and Understanding" in Serbian.

Serbian translation of manual on police and Roma and Sinti presented in Belgrade

The Serbian version of an OSCE manual on good practices in building trust and understanding between police and Roma and Sinti communities was launched on 1 February 2012 in Belgrade. It will be disseminated among staff of Serbian institutions, notably the Interior Ministry, to be used in their work...

(l-r) Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Kypreos, and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic present the findings of the 2011 annual public opinion poll on citizens' attitudes towards the police in Serbia, Belgrade, 26 January 2012.

Serbia’s citizens recognize positive impact of police reforms, OSCE/Interior Ministry opinion poll shows

BELGRADE, 26 January 2012 – Citizens’ views on Serbia’s police have been getting steadily more positive over the past four years, according to the results of a survey presented today in Belgrade by the OSCE Mission to Serbia and the Interior Ministry...

Saša Janković, the Protector of Citizens, one of the three winners of the 2011 OSCE Mission to Serbia Person of the Year Award, during the award ceremony in Belgrade, 14 December 2011. Jankovic was awarded for his efforts in protecting citizens’ rights and investigating maladministration by public authorities and institutions.

OSCE Mission announces 2011 ‘People of the Year’ awards

BELGRADE, 14 December 2011 – In recognition of the contribution made by Serbia’s independent agencies and bodies in protecting and advancing human rights, equality, government accountability and citizens’ participation in the country, the heads of three institutions will receive the OSCE Mission to Serbia’s “People of the Year” awards at a ceremony in Belgrade today...

Apprentice judges attend OSCE Mission to Serbia course on anti-discrimination and gender equality legislation

The OSCE Mission to Serbia’s Democratization Department, in partnership with Serbia’s Judicial Training Academy, organized the country’s first anti-discrimination and gender equality training course for apprentice judges in Zlatibor, in central Serbia, from 5 to 8 December 2011...

The opening of the regional training session on the use of the Nordic Mule software in the fight against child pornography on the internet, Belgrade, 28 November 2011.

OSCE Mission to Serbia supports fight against child pornography on Internet

Some 20 law enforcement investigators from the police services of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia participated in a three-day regional training course on the use of new computer software to fight cybercrime...

Knut Vollebaek, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorites (c); Dimitrios Kypreos, Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia (r); and Jeroen deVries, OSCE municipal co-ordinator in Bujanovac (l), attend the opening of the first multilingual and multi-ethnic university department in Bujanovac, 28 October 2011.

OSCE welcomes opening of multilingual university department in south Serbia

BUJANOVAC, Serbia, 28 October 2011 – The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Knut Vollebaek and the Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Dimitrios Kypreos, today attended the opening of the first multilingual and multi-ethnic university department in Bujanovac...

Participants of a roundtable on the decriminalization of libel discuss the legal framework and problems the media face in reporting, Belgrade, 19 October 2011.

OSCE Mission supports consultations on decriminalization of libel in Serbia

Some 20 judges, prosecutors and representatives of the Journalists’ Association of Serbia and the Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia gathered on 19 October 2011 in Belgrade to discuss the decriminalization of libel...

OSCE Mission to Serbia supports community policing training

Some 50 police officers from 27 regional police directorates will be trained in community policing principles during a two- week course for Community Liaison Officers, in Vrnjacka Banja from 26 September to 7 October 2011. The OSCE Mission to Serbia is holding the event together with the Interior Ministry...