Publications

The OSCE Secretary General’s Annual Report gives an overview of the Organization's activities and its co-operation with partner states and other organizations.

This Compendium presents an overview of legislation, policies, and mechanisms for ensuring the protection and enforcement of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of armed forces personnel. It includes many examples and good practices from across the OSCE region that have proven successful. It also contains recommendations which can help participating States ensure that their policies and practices are in full compliance with international human rights standards and OSCE human dimension commitments.

This is one of a set of ten specialized teaching aids to support teachers to address anti-Semitism. These teaching aids offer guidance for responding effectively to challenging questions or behaviour from students, provide brief but essential background information on contemporary manifestations of Anti-Semitism, and signpost other useful resources for further reading.

This research was implemented by the Independent Journalists' Association of Vojvodina (NDNV) with the OSCE Mission to Serbia's support. Paying particular attention to the goals of the Strategy of Development of System of Public Information in the Republic of Serbia (2020-2025), the research was conducted in order to better understand socio-economic position and working status of journalists and media workers in Vojvodina region, with special focus on position of female journalists, journalists working in minority language media, as well as freelancers and other journalists without permanent employment status.

This report highlights the impact of activities carried out by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in 2019.

This report is the result of cooperation between the Banja Luka Human Rights Centre and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (the Mission) and is largely based on the Mission's monitoring with regard to respect for human rights in BiH in times of the pandemic.

A new UNESCO and ODIHR co-publication takes up the challenge of educating learners to resist contemporary anti-Semitism at a time when the issue is becoming ever more crucial around the world. It suggests concrete ways to address anti-Semitism, counter prejudice and promote tolerance through education, by designing programmes based on a human rights framework, global citizenship education, inclusiveness and gender equality. It also provides policymakers with tools and guidance to ensure that education systems build the resilience of young people to anti-Semitic ideas and ideologies, violent extremism and all forms of intolerance and discrimination, through critical thinking and respect for others.

Since 2017, the OSCE Mission to Serbia through the DemSec project has been supporting the Public Policy Research Centre in launching annual competition for the best human security essays for students from Belgrade University. Given the global impact of Covid-19 on all aspects of social life, this year’s Call for Papers focused on the effects of the pandemic on human security and the threat posed by the virus on individuals in a variety of fields. All three papers chosen this year were written by women and all three examine Covid-19 as a global phenomenon and a threat to security. This publication is available in Serbian and in English.

This joint publication by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and UNESCO aims to assist primary school teachers in preventing and responding to anti-Semitism. It is part of a set of four training curricula designed for trainers of (1) primary school teachers, (2) secondary school teachers, (3) vocational school teachers and (4) school directors.

The new edition of the Safety of Journalists Guidebook takes into account events undertaken by international organizations, governments and non-governmental organizations to create a safer environment for members of the media since the second edition of the Guidebook was published in 2014. It is available in English and Russian.