Publications

Inside the magazine: Interview with 2014 OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Swiss Foreign Minister and President of the Confederation Didier Burkhalter; Conventional Arms Control; Cross-border Co-operation on the shores of the Barents Sea; Vera Gracheva: a personal responsibility to fight human trafficking; the Swiss NGO Geneva Call.

The study provides an analytical overview of women’s participation in 2012 parliamentary elections in Armenia. It was prepared by the Gender Studies Centre of the Association of Women with University Education, with support from the OSCE Office in Yerevan and with the financial contribution from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Tbilisi.

The report introduces the outcomes of a study of the obsolete pesticides and persistent organic pollutants in the Nubarashen burial site, located near Yerevan, and their impact on the environment. It also includes potential scenarios for site remediation. The project was implemented by the OSCE Office in Yerevan and the Armenian Ministry of Emergency Situations, with funding from the US Government. The feasibility study and the assessment of environmental and health risks was conducted by Tauw, a Dutch company.

The newsletter covers the OSCE Office in Yerevan activities for the period of 1 July- 31 December 2013.

This guidebook provides guidance on the central issues that can have an impact on the success or failure of police efforts to harness a community-policing approach to preventing terrorism and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism. It is primarily intended for policymakers and senior police professionals, but may also be a useful resource for members of civil society with an interest in these issues, in particular community leaders.

On 6-7 September 2012, the OSCE Gender Section hosted an expert roundtable focusing on the significant barriers faced by women from migrant, minority and Roma and Sinti communities in relation to social, economic and political integration. The report consolidates the recommendations from the roundtable and identifies potential actions and next steps for participating States, civil society and OSCE structures towards strengthening women from migrant, minority and Roma and Sinti communities to act as agents of change, as well as includes a a summary of the roundtable sessions, recommendations and examples of best practices highlighted by the participants.

The overall objective of the “Best Practices for Roma Integration (BPRI)” project is to contribute to the integration of Roma minorities in the Western Balkans, in accordance with the beneficiaries’ commitments as OSCE participating States and perspective members of the European Union. This report intends to contribute to this overall objective by providing a situation anal¬ysis of the housing conditions of Roma in the Western Balkans and by documenting good learning practice on legalization of land and buildings, upgrading of (informal) Roma settlements and the provision of social housing.

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.

A compendium of best practices prepared by the Geneva Centre of Democratic Control of the Armed Forces with NATO support and the Swiss Ministry of Defence. For the English version go to: http://www.dcaf.ch/Publications/Building-Integrity-and-Reducing-Corruption-in-Defence

This title is not available in English.