Publications

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.

The infosheet includes information about the membership and functioning of the Municipal Offices for Communities and Return (MOCRs) in 2020.

The infosheet includes information about the establishment and functioning of the Deputy Chairpersons of the Municipal Assembly for Communities (DCMACs) in 2020.

This document explains the mandate of the Deputy Mayor for Communities (DMC’s) and outlines statistics relating to DMC’s in 2020.

Newsletter by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo

Newsletter by the OSCE Secretariat

Newsletter by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo

The OSCE report ‘The Right to Effective Representation in Criminal Proceedings and the Ex Officio Appointment System’ provides insight into standards of criminal defence representation and the functioning of the ex officio appointment system in Kosovo. The report covers the period 2020 to 2021, and uses surveys with legal practitioners together with findings from OSCE trial monitoring to assess some of the challenges and barriers to effective criminal defence representation in Kosovo.