Publications

This guidebook tackles the issue of media self-regulation in the digital world. It is an effort to show the need for ethical standards in the Internet era and illustrate with specific examples how self-regulation mechanisms can protect media freedom in the digital age.

This analysis of the practical application of pretrial detention, as well as of the theoretical legal framework laid down in the Criminal Procedure Code1 of 2010 (hereinafter referred to as CPC 2010), which introduced conceptual reforms of national criminal procedure legislation, introducing elements typical of accusatorial systems, is the result of the cooperation between the Macedonian Association of Criminal Law and Criminology and the OSCE Mission to Skopje Rule of Law Department. The information in the analysis refer to the first nine months of enforcement of the CPC 2010, namely to the period between 1 December 2013 and 31 August 2014, and to four basic courts (Bitola, Gostivar, Skopje and Shtip). The publication is in English, Macedonian and Albanian languages.

This Handbook on Promoting Women’s Participation in Political Parties aims at encouraging political party leaders, men and women alike, to support the integration of gender aspects into internal political party decision-making processes. It also seeks to develop the capacity of women politicians to advance their political careers. The key finding that has emerged during the development of this handbook is that internal party reform is critical to women’s advancement. A lack of internal party democracy and transparency, the absence of gender-sensitivity in candidate selection and outreach, as well as the failure to decentralize party decision-making processes, all inhibit women’s opportunities to advance as leaders within parties and as candidates for elected office. To this end, the handbook provides a valuable overview of voluntary measures that political parties can adopt to enhance gender equality within party structures, processes, policies and activities, as a means to provide both women and men equal opportunities to participate meaningfully in the political life of OSCE participating States.

The Guide on Discrimination grounds is a systematized and analytical review of discrimination grounds, based on consideration of existing definitions (and their integral parts) set forth under international and domestic law, international and national case law of courts and various treaty bodies, as well as in academic and grey literature.

ODIHR's annual report provides an overview of the Office's primary activities in the areas of elections, human rights, democratization, tolerance and non-discrimination, and Roma and Sinti issues.

This Occasional Paper, the seventh in a series of Occasional Papers published by OSCE Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, outlines the measures that businesses can take to ensure that trafficking in human beings does not occur in their workplaces or those of their suppliers (i.e., other businesses that sell products or services to them). It also reviews the obligations of the OSCE's participating States to regulate business activities and to enable businesses to take appropriate action to stop human trafficking from occurring. It provides a series of recommendations for OSCE participating States.

The scope of this Opinion covers only Article 235 of the Criminal Code, as submitted for review. The Opinion does not constitute a full and comprehensive review of the entire legal and institutional framework governing the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

This report was prepared as a result of implementing a project called Promoting Freedom of Assembly in the Kyrgyz Republic, which was supported by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the German Foreign Ministry. This report is intended for state bodies, non-governmental organizations, human rights defenders, and others with an interest in the challenges of observing the right to peaceful assembly in Kyrgyzstan.

This yearbook is a record of the activities undertaken by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media during 2014. Preface by the 2014 OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Foreign Minister of Switzerland Didier Burkhalter; foreword by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović.

This guidance note on Integrating Gender into Internal Police Oversight, developed by OSCE/ODIHR, DCAF and the OSCE Gender Section is a practical resource for police services, and those who manage and support them. It can help a police service move beyond a policy commitment to integrate gender ̶ by designating responsibilities for gender, by monitoring how gender issues are addressed in human resource management and in police operations, and by strengthening prevention and respond to sexual harassment and discrimination.