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This set of recommendations was prepared by the River Basin Council under the co-ordination of the International Hydrological Program Organization Association. The OSCE Office in Baku edited, translated and published the recommendations. The views expressed in the report are the authors’ own and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the OSCE Office in Baku. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the International Hydrological Program Organization Association.

The Office produced the booklet “Children and the Internet” within its project on Support to Building Capacity in Countering Cyber-Crime-2013. The booklet aims to raise the awareness of parents on internet threats and the necessary control measures in consultation with key stakeholders. Development of this booklet was the Office’s humble contribution to host country’s efforts to expand safe internet practices and to strengthen parental control. The Office disseminated these booklets through internet providers and the Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies. The poster is only available in Azerbaijani.

The OSCE Office in Baku developed this report based on the findings collected by the trial monitoring team over the period from July until December 2013. The team assessed and analysed the collected data based on the applicable national legislation and international standards. The monitoring activities were carried out in line with the trial monitoring methodology developed by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.

This paper provides a model for monitoring and evaluating of electronic services recommended to be used for assessment of the progress in e-Government development of Azerbaijan. Our proposal is based on data gathered in the Fact Finding Mission which took place in Baku on 12- to 14 November, and on international evaluation experience.

The Office's assessment includes the review and analysis of the assistance and services available to victims of trafficking and forced labour in Azerbaijan, with the objectives of identifying gaps and obstacles preventing provision of effective assistance to victims, and of seeking opportunities for improving these aspects of assistance. The review of legislation and practices included housing, social, medical, psychosocial, legal, physical safety and protection, and reintegration assistance services available in Baku, the capital city of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

‘Women Leaders’ Public Union developed this manual as part of the project on developing women entrepreneurship in the regions of Azerbaijan with financial support from the OSCE Office in Baku. The views set out in this manual are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the OCSE Office in Baku. This document is not available in English.

This manual was developed and published within the framework of “Public Assembly Management” project implemented by the OSCE Office in Baku. The original version of the manual was prepared by Prof. Dr. Semiha AYDIN, Ali SEVİNÇ, Tayyip KARAHAN, Zafer KURT, Serhad YÖŞ and Eyyüp KAYA in Turkey under “Basic Training of Rapid Reaction Force” name, in 2011. This document is not available in English.

This document is the second, revised edition of the ODIHR-Venice Commission Guidelines on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, which were first published in 2007. The Guidelines offer a practical toolkit for legislators and practitioners responsible for implementing laws by drawing on good-practice examples from national legislations in European and OSCE participating States and the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights to illustrate the various legislative options used to regulate issues pertaining to the freedom of assembly.

This Azerbaijani-language handbook was produced by the OSCE Office in Baku in the framework of a project on individual human rights complaints.