Publications

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

This report examines the misapplication of the law, and concludes that the failure of legal practitioners to apply the legal offence of trafficking correctly hinders the ability of the Kosovo courts to respond the crime of human trafficking.

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.

The Justice Monitor is a biannual publication of the observations of OSCE monitors in the first instance courts in Kosovo. The Justice Monitor aims to provide policymakers and justice sector actors with indicators not otherwise available to assist in the identification of compliance gaps in the administration of justice and the tracking of progress achieved in closing those gaps.

This report finds that, due to procedural deficiencies, Kosovo courts are failing to adjudicate inheritance proceedings in accordance with domestic law, thereby violating rights guaranteed under international and regional human rights instruments.

Newsletter by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo

Newsletter by the OSCE Secretariat

Newsletter by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo

This document outlines what Communities Committees (CC’s) are and provides information regarding CC’s in 2018.