Publications
How to prevent human trafficking for domestic servitude in diplomatic households and protect private domestic workers
Publishing date: 3 November 2014
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This Handbook for Protocol Officers serves to raise awareness and inform the relevant authorities about how to prevent trafficking in human beings for domestic servitude in diplomatic households, how to detect abuses and how to react to exploitative situations while protecting the rights of the domestic worker. This handbook will increase knowledge about strategies and policies to discourage non-compliance in the employment of private domestic workers in diplomatic households. It will also provide examples of national practices which have proven effective towards those ends.
Addressing Anti-Semitism: Why and How? A Guide for Educators
Publishing date: 3 December 2007
Collections: Teaching Materials to Challenge anti-Semitism
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
These guidelines provide suggestions for teachers and other educators who feel the need to address issues pertaining to contemporary anti-Semitism. Recognizing that the context may vary in every country, or even in individual classrooms, this document provides educators with a general overview of common manifestations of contemporary anti-Semitism, as well as with some key educational principles and strategies for addressing this complex and challenging subject.
Promoting co-operation through good governance in the anti-corruption policy implementation. Surveys and analysis
Publishing date: 1 December 2014
Content type: Book
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Good governance
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The publication is integral part of project activities in the frames of cooperation between the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC) and the OSCE Mission to Skopje in 2013 and 2014. It contains a total of five qualitative analysis conducted on the basis of National Integrity System (NIS) methodology of Transparency International, as well as three public opinion polls conducted by the Rating Agency to screen the citizens perception about the existence of corruption in selected sectors of the State Programme for Prevention and Repression of Corruption and Conflict of Interest 2011-2015.
Lessons learned for the OSCE from its engagement in Ukraine
Publishing date: 17 June 2015
Content type: Study / report
Where we are: Networks
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Publisher: Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security as a Common Project
Interim Report and Recommendations of the Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security as a Common Project
Mediation and Dialogue Facilitation in the OSCE
Publishing date: 13 November 2014
Collections: OSCE documents and publications on mediation
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The purpose of this Reference Guide is to provide recommendations surrounding the eight fundamental principles of the UN Guidance for Effective Mediation as they pertain to the OSCE context. It intends to offer practical guidance for OSCE representatives who are directly involved in designing, implementing, and evaluating mediation and dialogue facilitation engagements in the field.
2014 Yearbook of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
Publishing date: 12 August 2015
Content type: Annual report
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This yearbook is a record of the activities undertaken by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media during 2014. Preface by the 2014 OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Foreign Minister of Switzerland Didier Burkhalter; foreword by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović.
Gender Equality Review Conference report
Publishing date: 29 January 2015
Content type: Study / report
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Gender equality
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This report presents the proceedings and outcomes of the first Gender Equality Review Conference held in the year of the 10th anniversary of the 2004 OSCE Action Plan for the Promotion of Gender Equality. The report shows an example of how political will and leadership can strengthen the awareness and understanding of the important link between gender equality and comprehensive security.
Annual Report of the Secretary General on Police-Related Activities in 2013
Publishing date: 15 August 2014
Content type: Annual report
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The Annual Report of the Secretary General on Police-Related Activities in 2013, submitted in accordance with Decision 9, paragraph 6, of the 2001 Bucharest Ministerial Council Meeting, provides an overview of the police-related programmes and projects, implemented by the OSCE executive structures, including the thematic units in the Secretariat, the Institutions and the field operations, during 2013.
OSCE Annual Report 2010
Publishing date: 31 March 2011
Collections: OSCE Annual Reports
Content type: Annual report
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General, OSCE Secretariat
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The OSCE Annual Report provides an overview of the Organization's activities in its field operations and institutions as well as co-operation with other international organizations.
Human Rights in Counter-Terrorism Investigations: A Practical Manual for Law Enforcement Officers
Publishing date: 29 November 2013
Collections: ODIHR Publications
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
What we do: Human rights, Countering terrorism, Policing
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This manual focuses on the investigation process and has been produced following requests from law enforcement officers working in the field for a practical tool to aid their work. It is designed to help improve democratic policing practice across the OSCE and to assist law enforcement