Publications

This handbook presents an overview of legislation, policies, and mechanisms for ensuring the protection and enforcement of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of armed forces personnel. While recognizing that no single model can apply equally to every individual country, the handbook presents examples from across the OSCE region of practices that have proved successful.

This book has been prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in conjunction with the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina. This booklet aims to help the police, prosecutors, judges, legislators, local authorities and NGOs better understand the problem of hate crimes.

This is an analytical review of EU countries’ experience in climate-change adaptation in, as well as analysis of expected climate-change impacts for Ukraine and its vulnerabilities. The publication provides practical guidance and background information for the government of Ukraine on adaptation to climate change. Available in English and Ukrainian.

In this issue: Greek Chairmanship- Papandreou addresses OSCE; 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall; Incoming Kazakh Chairmanship; Cyprus confronts its MANPADs menace; Announcements.

Hate Crimes in the OSCE Region – Incidents and Responses is prepared annually by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) as part of the OSCE’s efforts to combat hate crimes.

ODIHR's Annual Report 2010 provides an overview of the Office's primary activities in the areas of elections, human rights, democratization, tolerance and non-discrimination, and Roma and Sinti issues.

An OSCE Talks report which looks at the challenges and opportunities of communications and media, including social and new media, in conflict situations.

This publication provides the overview of legal framework and religious freedom implementation practice and activity of religious organizations in the Kyrgyz Republic. The information collected is intended to facilitate improvement of religious freedom legal regulation considering constitutional norms and the international commitments of the Kyrgyz Republic.

The fourth issue of the e-newsletter issued by the Gender Section of the OSCE on a quarterly basis.

This guide was produced jointly by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and updated in 2012. It is primarily designed for training mid-level government officials, parliamentarians and representatives of social partners on how to gender-mainstream migration policy by looking at the legal protections in place for migrant workers at the national, regional and international levels; the latest policy developments related to the labour migration of women in countries of origin; admission and post-admission policies; measures to reduce irregular labour migration; and possibilities for international co-operation on labour migration.