Publications

Disasters affect the security of people and nations. Their impact can cross borders and transboundary co-operation is often required to address related challenges. Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and scale of disasters. The OSCE with its comprehensive approach to security plays an important role in strengthening resilience of communities, states and regions.

The Manual is intended for criminal law judges in Serbia to guide them in writing criminal law judgments. It is the result of a series of working group meetings organized by the OSCE Mission to Serbia and the US Department of Justice with support of the Supreme Court of Cassation of Serbia, in the period of two years. The authors of the Manual are prominent criminal law judges of the Supreme Court of Cassation and the Appellate Court in Belgrade. The Manual is available only in Serbian language.

National Action Plan for the Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 – Women, Peace and Security in the Republic of Serbia (2017–2020).The overall goal of the National Action Plan (2017- 2020) is to improve the security of women in society through an integral implementation of UNSC Resolution 1325 in the Republic of Serbia in the areas of prevention, participation, protection and recovery, with greater involvement of women in maintaining peace and security at the local community level.

The publication is the updated version of the Reference Manual of the OSCE Economic and Environmental Dimension Commitments, published in 2014. It contains the text of all Economic and Environmental Dimension related documents adopted at Summit and Ministerial Council levels, as well as relevant Permanent Council decisions.

The publication gives an overview of both domestic and European legislation on the admissibility and use of actio popularis mechanism, the practice of the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union as well as the practice of the region. This publication also provides insight on the specific methodology for use of actio popularis, in order to provide proper guidance for citizen associations in terms of the cases and ways they should use this mechanism.

The aim of the Comparative Study is to assist the Agency for Electronic Media in improving the legal framework by producing a comparative analysis of the legal frameworks in seven OSCE and Western Balkan region countries related to the political advertising and media campaign during the pre-election period.

This comparative study complements the efforts of the OSCE Mission to Skopje to support the transition in practicing the new adversarial model of criminal procedure in the country, largely based upon similar legislative transitions in countries across Europe. It is comprised of inputs from seven different researches on the implementation of the in dubio pro reo principle and the standard beyond reasonable doubt in various judicial systems both historically and in present day.

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.

This brief offers an overview of the security implications and most vulnerable geographic areas as identified during a regional participatory assessment process on Climate Change and Security in Central Asia conducted by the ENVSEC Initiative in partnership with the European Union Instrument for Stability and the Austrian Development Agency from late 2013 to 2016. The participatory assessment was conducted in the framework of the ENVSEC project “Climate Change and Security in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus” with the overall goal to identify and explain how climate change may exacerbate threats to security and to propose effective measures in response.