Publications
A Booklet about: Watching Elections and Helping People with Disabilities take part in Elections
Publishing date: 20 May 2020
Collections: Election handbooks
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The 1 billion people with disabilities around the world have diverse needs and views. People with disabilities must have the chance to take part in elections to have their needs and views represented. But they still face barriers during elections – from problems with physical accessibility to a lack of supported decision-making. They are under-represented as voters, candidates and politicians, as well as election administrators and observers. ODIHR observes elections to see if full participation is taking place in elections throughout the OSCE. Information gathered by observers can help people with disabilities to be better included in future elections. This new booklet provides easy-to-understand information about the rights of people with disabilities to take part in politics and elections and how they can be observed.
Guidance on Trauma-Informed National Referral Mechanisms and Responses to Human Trafficking
Publishing date: 22 August 2023
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Survivors need to have confidence in the systems designed to identify and protect them, to give them the best chance of accessing services, staying with them and remaining safe. Therefore, NRMs should provide a structural set up for trauma-informed frameworks and procedures, and function as a natural ‘home’ for professional, trauma-informed methods of working. NRMs must ensure respect for the human rights and dignity of all adults and children who are victims of trafficking. There should be clear recognition in anti-trafficking law, policy and related guidance — and therefore recognition across all relevant NRM sectors and by all service providers — that victims of human trafficking should be treated as a distinct category of vulnerable people in need.
Election Administration Gender Audits – a toolkit
Publishing date: 24 April 2024
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections, Gender equality
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
As a public authority, the election administration should be representative of the wider society. Within its structure, there should be no disparity between men and women or a preponderance of one gender at any level, including in senior positions. The EMB has the greatest responsibility for ensuring the inclusive participation of eligible voters in elections.
Expertise in criminal procedure- Guidebook for practitioners
Publishing date: 20 July 2023
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Human rights, Good governance, Rule of law
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
During the implementation of the current LCP, during trial monitoring activities and over discussion with national legal practitioners, it became obvious that one of the weaknesses among legal practitioners is the adequate use of expert opinions, expert witnesses and technical advisors as a tool for representing facts as evidence in Court, and their effective, efficient and financially justified conduct in accordance with the rules and principles of the national criminal procedure. The Law on Expertise, as lex specialis needs to be understood in the context of the LCP and the purpose of the expert witnesses during a criminal case trial. Therefore, the OSCE Mission to Skopje supported the drafting of this Guidebook for legal practitioners including positive and negative examples from the national court practice, ECtHR jurisprudence and additional elaborations of the novelties in the Law on Expertise.
Trafficking in Children
Publishing date: 2 September 2020
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Recommendations for effective protection in the best interests of the child
Supply Chains
Publishing date: 2 September 2020
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Preventing Trafficking For Labour Exploitation In Supply Chains.
Simulation-based Training exercise
Publishing date: 2 September 2020
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Partnership
Publishing date: 2 September 2020
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Country Visits and Technical Assistance Visits
Publishing date: 2 September 2020
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
A General Overview of Indicators
Training manual on human rights in the army
Publishing date: 20 September 2013
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe