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This study examines the existence of criminal defamation and insult laws in the territory of the 57 participating States of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). In doing so, it offers a broad, comparative overview of the compliance of OSCE participating States’ legislation with international standards and best practices in the field of defamation law and freedom of expression.

The Permanent Council adopted the Declaration on the deadly terrorist attack against the Russian Ambassador to Turkey. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea.

Security Dialogue: Revisiting the 1996 OSCE Framework for Arms Control- presentations by: – Ambassador F. Seixas da Costa, former Chairperson of the Permanent Council, Portugal; – Ambassador S. Baumann, Deputy Federal Government Commissioner for Disarmament and Arms Control, German Federal Foreign Office (Russian Federation, Annex).

Conclusions from a state-wide conference on anti-corruption conference organized by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina in co-operation with the country's Agency for the Prevention of Corruption and Co-ordination of the Fight against Corruption, Sarajevo, 14 March 2017.

Speech by the Head of Mission, Ambassador Maryse Daviet, delivered at the event "Promoting Stability in South-Eastern Europe- Montenegro and the Strengthening of Collective Security Systems", Law Faculty in Podgorica, 29 March 2017.

833rd Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation

833rd Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation

Hate Monitor is a monthly visualization of the Mission’s hate crimes monitoring data. It presents the latest data on all known bias-motivated incidents and responses to these incidents by the justice sector, local authorities, and civil society throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.