Publications
Non-governmental organizations in Uzbekistan: legal regulation, economic basis, accounting and taxation in the light of last legislative changes
Publishing date: 13 October 2010
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Media freedom and development
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The Handbook compiles the diverse aspects of legal regulation of NGOs activities, accounting and taxation of NGOs. The Handbook also provides the necessary comments, recommendations, relevant examples of legal practice that allows executives, professionals, founders and members of NGOs and donors to orient themself in these areas, to make the right management decisions and to develop effective long-term strategies for NGOs. This report is not available in English.
Communication with witnesses and victims- Application of communication skills in the work of the public prosecution
Publishing date: 27 October 2023
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The publication is intended for public prosecutors and persons who perform the work of contact points. It aims to add a psychological aspect to the international and domestic regulations and other acts that make up the strategic and legal framework for providing support to victims and witnesses, so
Communication with witnesses and victims
Publishing date: 27 October 2023
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Application of communication skills in the work of judges and the Service for providing assistance and support to victims and witnesses of criminal acts
Court Reporting – Guidelines for Journalists
Publishing date: 20 September 2023
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This guide helps journalists to report more effectively from courts in a professional manner and in line with codes of journalism ethics and conduct, and related court reporting sensitivities, protection of privacy, legal and normative frameworks while upholding ethical standards and appropriate context by holding institutions of justice to account. With an overall aim to provide the journalists with a solid guide that facilitates their reporting from the institutions of justice and the media with a solid foundation to shape public discourse and foster policy change, the guidelines include an overview of the relevant legal framework, institutions of justice, and court reporting. The guide is available in Albanian, Serbian, and English.
General legal theory
Publishing date: 23 November 2016
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Education
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
A handbook on the theory of law (under the general editorship of Professor Mykola Koziubra), developed and published with the support of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, offers a rethinking of modern scientific approaches to understanding the role of the state in the process of lawmaking. The handbook focuses on various aspects of human rights and rule of law and promotes shaping the students’ outlook through the prism of universal legal values. Available in Ukrainian only.
Basics of Work of Public Inspectors, Volunteers and Activists Interested in Preserving and Restoration of Environment in Ukraine. Methodological Recommendations
Publishing date: 25 October 2023
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
What we do: Environmental activities, Good governance
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The manual for training of civil society activists who wish to strengthen the work of environmental protection agencies was developed by the OSCE Secretariat Extra-Budgetary Support Programme for Ukraine on request from the Sate Environmental Inspectorate. Available in Ukrainian language.
Ensuring Human Rights Compliance in Cybercrime Investigations
Publishing date: 13 October 2023
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The Guide aims to raise awareness among criminal justice practitioners of the implications that the investigation of cybercrimes and other crimes involving electronic evidence can have for human rights, and to support them to uphold human rights in their daily investigative work.
Best Practice Guide on Procedures for Management of Stockpiles of Conventional Ammunition
Publishing date: 26 January 2024
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation, Resources
What we do: Arms control
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This guide provides recommended best practices that will facilitate and enhance proper management of national stockpiles of conventional ammunition, explosive material and detonating devices. It contains information useful for those individuals currently working in ammunition storage locations and those managers involved in the chain of command over these facilities that are working to establish national policy and procedures. These practices will help participating States (pS) both use their resources more efficiently and to diminish the risk of dangerous situations involving theft, loss, or accident.
Manual on effective media reporting during election campaigns
Publishing date: 8 May 2023
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro
What we do: Media freedom and development
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Acknowledging the fact that the Code of Journalists of Montenegro is the most important normative act of a professional media worker and that its observance is an unquestionable imperative, the OSCE working group, based on principles of the Code, prepared a Manual on effective media reporting during election campaigns. In response to the need for professional and responsible journalism in a particularly sensitive and important period for the democracy of a society- the election period, this Manual aims to offer the media community a comprehensive and systematic text about their possible professional challenges and how to address them during election campaigns. Not available in English.
Communication with witnesses and victims
Publishing date: 27 October 2023
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Rule of law
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The publication is intended for representatives of the Ministry of Interior who, in their daily work, are in contact with witnesses and victims of criminal acts. The aim of the publication was to add a psychological aspect to the international and domestic regulations and other acts that make up