Publications

This handbook aims to provide guidance for the police in facilitating the right to assemble peacefully. The handbook has been written primarily for police officers working in the OSCE area who have command responsibilities, at any level, for the policing of public assemblies. The handbook outlines key steps and principles for careful police work with assemblies through considered and proportionate policing, having at its core the aim of facilitating the right to peaceful assembly. It provides guidance for the successful policing of assemblies based on the requirements of international human rights law and established good practice from across the OSCE area. Although the focus of the handbook is on “assemblies”, the guidance and recommended practices are also applicable to other types of gatherings (e.g., state occasions, sporting events).

Coalition building is about individual organizations amplifying their voices by working together. Anti-Semitism, intolerance and discrimination are deeply embedded across the OSCE region and addressing them requires the combined efforts of many communities and organizations. It cannot be accomplished in any large measure by just one group acting on its own. By bringing together groups with different skills, experiences, resources and connections, coalitions can be a powerful ways to bring about large-scale, enduring changes to address issues of discrimination. ODIHR’s new guide offers community leaders and civil society organizations in the OSCE region a human rights-based approach and practical basis for building successful coalitions aimed at addressing discrimination and fostering more tolerant and peaceful societies. By providing multiple resources and good practices, tips for gender mainstreaming and step-by-step instructions, this guide serves as a starting point not only for civil society organizations and communities setting out to create successful coalitions that strengthen responses to intolerance and discrimination, but for all members of civil society who wish to create coalitions to advance their goals.

This report focuses on the findings of the OSCE-led survey on the Well-being and Safety of Women and their implications for disadvantaged women. It focuses on the broader trends that emerged around the experiences of different demographic groups of women across the region and how disadvantaged groups of women are affected by violence compared with women generally.

While the definition and scope of the term “foreign terrorist fighter” (FTF) is controversial, in recent years it has been commonly used to refer to individuals who have travelled from their home states to other states to participate in or support terrorist acts, including in the context of armed conflict, especially in Iraq and Syria. This document seeks to provide states with recommendations, and supporting analysis, on some of the key human rights issues that they must grapple with as they seek to respond to the threats posed by FTFs in a manner that is consistent with human rights and the rule of law. Following a brief overview of background facts, international and national responses, this document offers a series of recommendations for a human rights-compliant approach to addressing the flow and return of FTFs.

Newsletter by the OSCE Secretariat

Newsletter of the OSCE Mission to Croatia. In this issue: Corruption; Zadar celebrates cultural diversity; FO Gospic helps disabled returnees; Human rights workshops for primary school children in Lika.

Newsletter by the OSCE Secretariat

This research provides information on police education and training models in eight European countries (Austria, Netherlands, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Poland, Croatia, and Montenegro), U.S., and Canada. It includes an overview of the functioning of police education and training systems, an analysis of the curricula for basic and specialized police training, an evaluation of police in-service training and development and an assessment of Human Resources management in police education and training institutions. It is recommended for a broad range of professionals dealing with police education and training.

This report provides an updated overview of the restrictions and other impediments the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine faced in fulfilling its mandate in the second half of 2018 (1 July – 31 December).

Coalition building is about individual organizations amplifying their voices by working together. Anti-Semitism, intolerance and discrimination are deeply embedded across the OSCE region and addressing them requires the combined efforts of many communities and organizations. It cannot be accomplished in any large measure by just one group acting on its own.