Publications

Handbook for fieldwork

This handbook is intended to provide basic guidance for dealing with complaints of individual human rights violations received by OSCE missions and other field operations.

25th OSCE Ministerial Council, Milan, 6-7 December 2018

A handbook on criminal procedure, written in co-authorship by Professor Leonid Loboyko and Oleksandr Banchuk, Ph.D., developed and published with the support of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine. The handbook covers main issues of criminal procedure. Considerable attention is given to European standards of human rights protection in criminal procedure. Available in Ukrainian only.

A handbook on general administrative law, written in co-authorship by Professor Roman Melnik and Professor Volodymyr Bevzenko, developed and published with the support of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine. The structure and text content of the handbook are conditioned by modern Ukrainian and European administrative law doctrines. Considerable attention is devoted to case-law analysis. Available in Ukrainian only.

A handbook on criminal law, written in co-authorship by Professor Oleksandr Dudorov and Professor Mykola Khavroniuk (under the general editorship of Professor Mykola Khavroniuk), developed and published with the support of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine. The handbook covers main issues of the general and specific parts of the criminal law of Ukraine. It also discusses international and European criminal law, as well as criminal law of foreign countries. Available in Ukrainian only.

The Handbook provides an overview on the implementation and developments of mechanisms to ensure objectivity and transparency in investigations of human rights violations, as well as in securing appropriate punishments. The handbook is available only in Ukrainian.

The Handbook describes the work of National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) in Ukraine. It covers basic steps of the detention facilities monitoring; defines situations that a monitor may face during the visit; provides recommendations on conducting interviews. The publication will be useful for NPM monitors, detention facilities employees, civic activists and all those interested in the problems of ill-treatment prevention in closed institutions in Ukraine. The handbook is available in Ukrainian.

The Handbook consolidates key aspects of social detention facilities monitoring in the framework of the national preventive mechanism (NPM) in Ukraine. It describes specific features of private social care institutions, psychiatric hospitals, orphanages and geriatric boarding centres of social and psychological rehabilitation for children. The Handbook provides recommendations on how to conduct interviews with different groups of clients, describes the types of documents that shall be examined, and outlines with with principles a monitor must comply. The publication will be useful for NPM monitors, social detention facilities staff, civic activists and all those interested in the problems of ill-treatment prevention in closed institutions in Ukraine. The handbook is available only in Ukrainian.

The purpose of this handbook is to provide the 57 OSCE participating States and 11 Partners for Co-operation with a reference guide on available legal tools, the latest legislative and policy trends, and pertinent measures and practices to prevent and suppress corruption. It is aimed at raising awareness of the range of international instruments available to national policymakers and anti-corruption practitioners, and assisting them in developing and implementing effective anti-corruption policies and measures, thereby reducing the possibilities for corruption, instability and transnational crime. The handbook is produced by the OSCE in collaboration with UNODC, OECD and GRECO and other partners.