Publications

An overview of current teaching on the Holocaust and on Anti-Semitism in the OSCE participating States, with recommendations.

These guidelines on preparing Holocaust memorial days have been developed for educators teaching high-school age students in the participating States of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), highlighting suggestions on how to plan commemoration activities connected with annual Holocaust Remembrance Days.

This paper provides an overview of international standards on the death penalty, as well as usage of capital punishment in the OSCE area. It covers the period from 30 June 2004 to 30 June 2005.

This report covers information received by participating States in response to a series of five Notes Verbales sent by the ODIHR in 2004, requesting relevant information relating to hate crimes, including statistics, legislation, and national initiatives.

A collection of essays by a variety of specialists about the need for education on the Holocaust.

This book, available in the Russian language only, provides a compilation of experience of the reform of the Border Guard in Poland over the last decade. During this time the Republic of Poland has experienced a series of profound political and economic changes, including the democratization of all spheres of government and public life.

2003 was a year of new opportunities for the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), as change came in the form of new mandates in the field of Roma and Sinti and anti-trafficking and through the creation of a new Human Rights Section.

Jointly commissioned by the ODIHR, UNICEF, and the UNHCHR, this report updates the previous reports of 2002 and 2003 by addressing the issue of prevention of trafficking in human beings.

This handbook provides a thorough overview of the ODIHR’s observation methodology and serves as a reference work for all members of an EOM. It also informs the OSCE community at large, including governments of participating States, political parties, candidates, voters, and civil society, about the planning, deployment, and implementation of an election observation mission.