Publications

In this issue: Message from the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev; OSCE Summits in changing times; Vienna Document; Transnational threats; OSCE engagement with Afghanistan; Anniversaries.

The Legal Digest of International Fair Trial Rights aims at building the capacity of legal practitioners to conduct professional trial monitoring by providing them with a comprehensive description of fair trial rights coupled with practical checklists based on the experience of OSCE trial monitoring operations.

The guidebook was prepared by the Environment and Security Initiative as a useful source for the best practices and policies for sustainable mining and closure of mines. It was translated and published into Armenian with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan.

In this issue: Facilitating voting in Kosovo, the Transdniestrian settlement process, good economic governance, digital media freedom.

This publication, issued by the OSCE Office of the Co-ordinator for Economic and Environmental Activities, the OSCE Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, and the OSCE Transnational Threats Department- Strategic Police Matters Unit, summarizes several years of joint efforts to bridge gaps in the knowledge and capacity of practitioners who are working to counter money laundering and trafficking in human beings. Much of the research contained herein was identified during the OSCE/UNODC Expert Seminar on Leveraging Anti-Money Laundering Regimes to Combat Human Trafficking, held in Vienna on 3-4 October 2011. This publication provides background and information to help practitioners to operationalize the intersection of human trafficking and money laundering.

This yearbook is a record of the activities undertaken by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media during 2013. Preface by the 2013 OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Ihor Prokopchuk; foreword by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović.

This issue features articles on the Vienna Document 2011, the Open Skies Treaty, and civil society activists from Mediterranean Partner countries.

The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area: Background Paper 2013 is intended to provide a concise update to highlight changes in the status of the death penalty in OSCE participating States and to promote constructive discussion of this issue. It covers the period from 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2013.

A report on the status, educational activity and operation of Moldovan-administered schools in Transdniestria teaching in the Latin script.

A practical tool in setting effective legislation to counter hate crime.