Publications

This report highlights the impact of activities carried out by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in 2024.

The OSCE participating States have agreed to several commitments that specifically mandate the Organization’s structures to assist participating States with developing programmes aimed at preventing all forms of gender-based violence, as outlined in the 2004 Action Plan for the Promotion of Gender Equality, and OSCE Ministerial Council decisions from 2005, 2014 and 2018 which emphasize the importance of collecting and disseminating reliable, disaggregated data on violence against women, alongside efforts to criminalize gender-based violence. Femicide, the gender-related killing of women and girls, is a global phenomenon and represents the most extreme manifestation of violence against women. This report aims to assess the response to femicide across the 57 OSCE participating States, focusing on three key areas: the criminal justice response, the collection of comparable data, and the reporting and analysis of femicide.

In this issue: Handling crisis in Georgia; Interview with the OSCE Secretary General; Kosovo in transition; Gender Action Plan; Appointments; On the scene

The OSCE invites you to apply for the OSCE Dialogue Academy for Young Women, which will take place from 6 to 16 October 2021 in Mavrovo, North Macedonia. Twenty-four successful applicants from Prishtinë/Priština and Belgrade who meet the qualification criteria will be selected to participate in the Academy. Please send your application by midnight, 29 August 2021.

Newsletter by the OSCE Misiion in Kosovo.

Newsletter by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo.

This document outlines what Communities Committees (CC’s) are and provides information regarding CC’s in 2020.

The report assesses the progress made by Kosovo institutions in respect to the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in the areas of inter-community dialogue, security and justice, language, education, returns, culture and media. The report finds that, while progress has been achieved in certain areas, more remains to be done to ensure the protection of communities’ rights. It also provides recommendations to the relevant institutions on how to improve their implementation of the Framework Convention.