Publications

Scoping study on addressing shared climate-related security challenges and strengthening resilience in the South Caucasus through fire risk reduction.

Effectively combating trafficking in human beings requires a strategic, co-ordinated, and well-resourced national response, utilizing a whole-of-society approach that can protect victims, prosecute traffickers and prevent exploitation. National Action Plans (NAPs) are fundamental to successfully delivering such a response. Recognizing the importance of NAPs within national anti-trafficking systems, the Office of the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings analyzed the NAPs that are currently in use within the OSCE region to examine their structure and thematic priorities against persistent challenges and emerging trafficking trends.

With 57 participating States in North America, Europe and Asia, the OSCE is the world’s largest regional security organization. The OSCE works for stability, peace and democracy for more than a billion people, through political dialogue about shared values and through practical work that makes a lasting difference.

In fourteen years of its existence, the Basin-wide contest of creativity “Colours of the Dniester” has been engaging a broad audience from the Dniester River basin to raise awareness on environmental protection and water management in the region via creative means.

This brief presents the preliminary findings of the assessment, focusing on how women are recruited to organized crime groups, their roles within them and how and why they exit these groups. The OSCE plans to publish the full assessment report on the role of women in organized crime in autumn 2023.

This paper is intended to be used by youth practitioners from international organisations, public institutions and the youth sector within the OSCE region and beyond. It includes an overview of existing practices and good practice examples, based on the experience of youth practitioners who contributed to the roundtable discussions and key informant interviews. The paper also calls for continued peer learning and support among practitioners and youth activists from different sectors. So much is being done in the youth field, but practitioners too often work in isolation. The OSCE roundtable events upon which this paper is framed sought to bring people together and inspire a community of good practice around youth engagement. This tool seeks to extend the lessons from these events to an even broader audience, further growing the community.

The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities and the OSCE Secretariat Gender Issues Programme WIN Project commissioned research into the intersections of gender equality and national minorities. The factsheet highlights key findings and provides recommendations to OSCE participating States to promote equal opportunities for minority women.

Scoping study on addressing shared climate-related security challenges and strengthening resilience

This report is the result of research conducted on concrete examples of public-private partnerships (PPPs) for cyber/ICT security in OSCE participating States. It presents emerging practices in PPPs as baseline recommendations and organizes them under the rubrics of purpose, policy, process and people. This report could be used as a capacity-building tool to promote public-private collaboration as an important element in strengthening national cyber resilience and international cyber stability.