Publications

As part of the Gender and Security Sector Reform Toolkit, this tool provides an introduction to the benefits and opportunities of integrating gender issues into national-level security policy making.

The research, conducted with the support of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, provides an overview of some successful international practices in building and maintaining efficient co-operation between government authorities and civil society. It outlines confidence-building measures and mechanisms that facilitate dialogue and that can be applied in the Ukrainian context. It is available in both English and Ukrainian.

This Guide provides practical advice on recognizing, recording and investigating hate crimes in Ukraine. As a brief and practical reference tool, it complements the efforts of the National Police Main Investigation Department, which drafted a detailed Methodological Recommendation on Investigating Hate Crimes, and will assist prosecutors overseeing the investigation process.

The purpose of this guide is to help understand what gender mainstreaming means from an environment and sustainable development perspective and to provide guidance on how gender mainstreaming can be put into practice. It is primarily designed for project managers in OSCE field operations and institutions who are not experts in gender issues. It aims to enable the user to see how a gender perspective can be integrated into the development, management and monitoring of a standard environmental programme.

This factsheet explains the purpose of the Limited Election Observation Mission to the United States General Elections.

Coalition building is about individual organizations amplifying their voices by working together. Anti-Semitism, intolerance and discrimination are deeply embedded across the OSCE region and addressing them requires the combined efforts of many communities and organizations. It cannot be accomplished in any large measure by just one group acting on its own.

The target audience for this tool includes personnel responsible for SSR in security sector institutions, national government and parliament, international/regional organisations and donors, and civil society organisations. It is also designed for the staff of these organisations that are responsible for gender mainstreaming in the security sector.

This tool is designed to provide a basic introduction to SSR and gender issues for the staff of national governments (including in donor countries), security sector institutions, and regional and international organisations, responsible for the development of SSR policy and programming.

This Practice Note provides a short introduction to the benefits of integrating gender issues into private military and security companies (PMSCs), as well as practical information on doing so.

This tool is directed toward the personnel responsible for justice reform within national governments, international and regional organisations and donors. Parliamentarians, law societies and judges networks, civil society organisations and researchers focusing on justice reform may also find it useful.