Publications

This report offers empirical evidence and case studies from across the OSCE area on how women are recruited into organized crime groups, their roles within them, and how and why they exit these groups. It demonstrates that the role of women in organized crime is nuanced. Evidence shows that while women are often exploited and victimized by organized crime groups, they can also be important actors. Yet persistent gender stereotypes mean that women’s agency in organized crime is often not recognized by criminal justice practitioners. Failing to recognize women’s agency in organized crime impedes the understanding in participating States of the complexity of the organized crime landscape, and hampers their ability to combat transnational organized crime or support women to leave organized crime groups.

The Guide aims to raise awareness among criminal justice practitioners of the implications that the investigation of cybercrimes and other crimes involving electronic evidence can have for human rights, and to support them to uphold human rights in their daily investigative work.

This publication has been developed to guide trainers leading 4-day in-person training courses for prison staff designed by the OSCE’s Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and Penal Reform International (PRI) in partnership with the Swedish Prison and Probation Service (SPPS) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

With 57 participating States in North America, Europe and Asia, the OSCE is the world’s largest regional security organization. The OSCE works for stability, peace and democracy for more than a billion people, through political dialogue about shared values and through practical work that makes a lasting difference.

This publication is a useful reference source for environmental inspectors and border guards, as it provides a selection of legal acts, instructions on the procedures that are needed to monitor radiation in trans-border cargos. It also contains samples of documents to be filled by inspectors and recommendations on personnel security measures. Available in Ukrainian only.

This report provides a comprehensive overview of all police-related projects, activities and events, which draw on the combined strength of the OSCE’s Institutions and its network of field operations, often cutting across the OSCE’s three security dimensions.

Environmental Sustainability Strategy of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine is a mechanism to establish and further develop a framework for environmentally sustainable and conscious behavior of the staff and improve sustainable performance of the office. The Strategy contains a set of

This Brief summarizes the findings of the report "Mapping the online landscape of risks of trafficking in human beings on sexual services websites across the OSCE region." First of its kind, this report was designed to identify — in 40 OSCE participating States — the market-leading online sites and platforms for the explicit and non-explicit selling of sexual services where victims of THB for sexual exploitation could be advertised. The report's findings are based on the mapping and analysis of almost 2,900 sex services websites across the OSCE region, containing over 3 million advertisements; detailed information about how these websites operate is provided. The research also lists information and data associated with the sites and, through an analysis based on trafficking indicators, examines whether they can be exposed to human trafficking's risks.

The Handbook describes the work of National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) in Ukraine. It covers basic steps of the detention facilities monitoring; defines situations that a monitor may face during the visit; provides recommendations on conducting interviews. The publication will be useful for NPM monitors, detention facilities employees, civic activists and all those interested in the problems of ill-treatment prevention in closed institutions in Ukraine. The handbook is available in Ukrainian.