Publications
ECHR judgments on hate speech cases
Publishing date: 1 November 2012
Content type: Study / report
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Rule of law
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The publication includes compilation of rulings and judgments in regards to hate speech cases issued by the European Court for Human Rights. This publication is not available in English.
Compilation of legal regulations
Publishing date: 8 February 2012
Content type: Study / report
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The publication includes a compilation of legal regulations on the general competences of the Ombudsman.
Compilation of legal regulations – Ombudsman of the republic of Macedonia National preventive mechanism
Publishing date: 8 February 2012
Content type: Study / report
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Human rights, Democratization, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The publication includes a compilation of legal regulations stipulating the role of the Ombudsman as National Preventive Mechanism.
Manual for access to rights to social child protection
Publishing date: 15 November 2011
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Roma and Sinti, Youth
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The guide is intended primarily for employees in Roma Information Centers (RIC) to be a useful tool that will provide equality and accessibility to users of the Roma community to the process of realization of social rights and child protection. It has been developed in order to create a common approach of all stakeholders to the realization of social rights and child protection, to improve understanding of the process of exercising rights and to provide details on the process of realization of rights in the field of social and child protection. This guide is not available in English.
Manual for access to rights of health insurance
Publishing date: 1 November 2011
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Roma and Sinti
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Insufficient knowledge on the rights to health care and insurance for most of the representatives of the Roma community is often an overwhelming obstacle to deepening social inequality gap, and it directly affects the poor health status of Roma and the general health condition of the entire population in the state. This manual on health insurance rights aims at providing basic directions for navigation in the legal labyrinth of organization and functioning of the health insurance in the state, or more specifically to serve as a support tool in the functioning of Roma Information Centers throughout the country. This publication is not available in English.
Handbook for imposing detention
Publishing date: 1 April 2009
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Rule of law
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The handbook elaborates the crucial role of detention in the criminal procedure and also provides directions for its successful implementation in accordance with domestic and international legal standards and respect of human rights. The handbook is not available in English.
Discrimination based on ethnicity
Publishing date: 1 December 2010
Content type: Study / report
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This publication looks into the state of discrimination based on ethnicity. This survey, or situational analysis, was carried out in the second half of 2010 by the Macedonian Center for International Co-operation (MCIC), at the initiative by OSCE and with the support of the Secretariat for the Implementation of the Ohrid Framework Agreement (SIOFA).
Ensuring the right to legal counsel
Publishing date: 1 December 2010
Content type: Study / report
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Rule of law
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The publication presents a comparative practices in providing legal assistance in criminal cases. It aims to examine the different aspects of the right to adequate defense with particular focus on adequate access of indigent persons to defence in criminal cases. Its primary goal is to foster discussion on these topics in the wake of the adoption of the new Law on Criminal Procedure.
Special investigative measures, a guidebook for practitioners
Publishing date: 1 December 2010
Content type: Study / report
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Rule of law
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The guidebook provides an overview of the domestic and comparative legal frameworks regarding the use of these measures. It can serve as a basis for the daily work of judges and prosecutors involved in organized crime cases.
Cross-examination, a guidebook for practitioners
Publishing date: 1 December 2010
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Rule of law
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The guidebook on cross-examination provides an overview of this new aspect to be introduced in the new criminal procedure law. It provides guiding material that can serve as a basis for the daily work of practitioners involved in conducting cross-examinations.