Publications

Inside the magazine: ODIHR Director Janez Lenarcic on democratic elections; Human trafficking: when kidneys become commodities; Retrieving humanity: can war crimes courts reconcile?

This Biennial Report reflects the work of the Office of the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings in 2020 and 2021. It is designed to highlight the Office's comprehensive strategy to end trafficking, the priorities informing the Office's programmatic work, the efforts made with participating States to help them develop more effective laws and policies, and the impact the Office aims to achieve on the ground.

Inside the magazine: Cyber/ICT security; When nature comes unbound: flood relief and disaster risk reduction; the OSCE in Ukraine: election monitoring, deploying the Special Monitoring Mission; the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration; Open Fun Football Schools; Interview with Madeleine Rees; Book review: Victor-Yves Ghebali’s history of the OSCE.

This report highlights the impact of activities carried out by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in 2021, the year that marked the Office’s 30th anniversary.

The Guide describes key concepts and offers an overview of best practices and policies that can have a positive impact on the overall business climate in order to support rising economic prosperity. A positive business and investment climate creates conditions that encourage business start‑ups, employment opportunities and overall economic growth.

This updated edition of the Guidelines provides tools for OSCE executive structures and their staff to pursue a coherent and co-ordinated approach to supporting nationally-led Security Sector Governance and Reform processes.

Working paper commissioned by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, written by dr. Sejal Parmar, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University, 2022.

The second issue of the e-newsletter issued by the Gender Section of the OSCE on a quarterly basis.

This paper provides an overview of the current state of the art in research on corruption and gender. The paper addresses the important question of how men and women are impacted differently by corruption, focusing on areas that are relevant to the OSCE mandate. The discussion also highlights the issue of “sextortion”, a form of corruption that disproportionately affects women. The paper concludes by highlighting selected promising practices and proposes several approaches to mainstreaming gender into the anti-corruption work of the OSCE.

In this issue: Not Business as Usual; Ministerial Council in Basel; Meet the Chairperson-in-Office; Waging Peace with Water; For a Plurilogue in Ukraine.