Publications

Issued by the OSCE Mission to Moldova, April 2009.

ODIHR's annual report for 2007 on hate crimes and state responses within the OSCE region.

The Handbook of Best Practices on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) is a set of guidelines developed by the Forum for Security and Co-operation to help cut down the amount of illegally-held weaponry in circulation. The Handbook is one of the most comprehensive manuals to-date on SALW that provides a set of best practice guides relating to all stages of a gun's life, starting with manufacture and finishing with destruction and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration.

This tool aims to contribute to an understanding of the relationship between gender and defence structures, and to highlight some practical steps that can be taken to transform the defence sector into a democratic, representative security service provider.

Operational guidelines developed jointly by the Conflict Prevention Centre's Operations Service and the Folke Bernadotte Academy of Sweden.

In this issue: OSCE Chairmanship; Maintaining the Momentum in Montenegro; Asian Partners for Co-operation; Remembering Anna Politkovskaya; Refugee Returns in the Balkans; Modernizing the Workplace

An annual report for 2006 on hate crimes and state responses within the OSCE region.

The third Occasional Paper focuses on the second largest employment sector of the OSCE region. It is a thorough analysis of the current challenges within the agricultural sector, aiming to assist to identify the structural issues and deficits of this sector that cause or exacerbates a worker's vulnerability. This is the first paper of its kind to address human trafficking for labour exploitation in the agricultural sector throughout the OSCE region. It sheds light on a sector in which workers are commonly exploited, but are often out of sight.

This tool on penal reform and gender provides guidance on responding to gender issues within penal systems.