Publications
Handbook on conducting proceedings of the Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights in the torture and ill-treatment cases together with the NGOs representatives
Publishing date: 31 January 2018
Collections: National Preventive Mechanism Library
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
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.
NPM Visit Organisation and Reporting Handbook
Publishing date: 30 January 2018
Collections: National Preventive Mechanism Library
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
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.
Handbook on Social Detention Facilities Monitoring
Publishing date: 30 January 2018
Collections: National Preventive Mechanism Library
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
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.
Working with or as an interpreter: an OSCE handbook for fieldwork
Publishing date: 1 January 2005
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Handbook for fieldwork
Guidelines for monitoring online violence against female journalists
Publishing date: 3 October 2023
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Individual Human Rights Complaints: A Handbook for OSCE Field Personnel
Publishing date: 1 October 2003
Collections: ODIHR Publications
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
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.
Handbook on Combating Corruption
Publishing date: 20 April 2016
Collections: Publications on good governance
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Good governance
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
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.
Handbook for Monitoring Administrative Justice
Publishing date: 23 June 2015
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Rule of law
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This handbook provides an overview of main fair trial rights and OSCE commitments applicable to judicial hearings within administrative justice, as well as practical information for establishing and running a trial monitoring operation in the field of administrative justice.
Handbook for training judges on anti-discrimination law
Publishing date: 25 March 2014
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This Handbook is intended as a simple tool providing basic guidance to judges on identifying discrimination and rendering judgements.
Handbook for the Observation of New Voting Technologies
Publishing date: 1 October 2013
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
This handbook is designed to provide basic guidance on how to observe the use of new voting technologies (NVT) in electoral processes. Several OSCE participating States have implemented or tested NVT during their elections, making use of electronic voting machines, ballot scanners, Internet voting or other electronic means. This handbook is designed to assist election observers in identifying and assessing the various elements of NVT that may impact the conduct of democratic elections.